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- In 1985, scientists discovered that 60 carbon atoms could join up to form one big soccer ball shape: a buckyball! It’s a strange little molecule.
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Carbon history: www.caer.uky.edu/carbon/histor...
C60: www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/buckyb...
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Discovery:www.acs.org/content/dam/acsor...
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My father was a blackbelt in karate and I only found out after I was 15 years old. I confirm, it was quite a shock.
Doctor BrainTaser you mean he was a benzene ring
"It does nothing in particular and does it very well." Great quote.
🤦🏽♂️
it does so much itll take small minds (like yours) twenty five years to find out what....
my life, except the ‘does very well’ part.
This is the one of the very rare occasions were scientists actually give something a cool name. Buckyball's, buckybomb's. Are you kidding me?!? XD
Conor Kinsella I prefer buckminsterfullerene.
Buckyballs sound silly, but buckminsterfullerene ain't got time for your shit.
@@seigeengine yea, i feel bad for Bucky's balls
Science: When in doubt, shoot lasers at it.
Sir Evilmustache
Actually it's sort of a "tried and true method" for random discoveries by now. Lately we "sort-of-kinda-by-accident-almost-maybe" (to be confirmed) sent some photons into "warps speed" by shooting a laser at an experiemtnal space propulsion engine type because some researchers just fancied the idea at the time
SketchAndEtch I heard it as well, but nothing official as of yet.
Sir Evilmustache The funny part? When they were invented, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem". Yeah, you could make coherent light. So what? What could you do with it? Turns out, basically all the things.
Matthew Prorok I call lasers the Swiss army knife of the scientific world.
Jeremy Smith
Well, atm it's neither "true" or"untrue" since we don't really understand what happened back there. All we know is that photons acted in a way they weren't supposed to, and that's about it. A lot of further research and stuff will be requiret to understand what that really was and why did it happen.
FIGHTING CANCER WITH EXPLOSIONS! TORGUE APPROVES!
likenem TESTOSTERONE!!!
likenem Yeah, no more radiation.... Lasers are for pussies.
likenem Made my day!
likenem WE HERE AT THE TORGUE THINK THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!
Cow17 You and every one who thumbs upped did too . I wasn't sure if the borderlands community crossed over with the Scishow Community.
_doctor_: I'm sorry to inform you miss, that you have cancer.
_patient_: Oh noes? Is there anything you can do to help me?
_doctor_: *_holding a stick of what appears to be dynamite_* No worries miss, we can blast the cancer out of you in no time.
Lttlemoi I love explosions, perhaps I should go into medcine
Michael Bay's dream hospital
Lttlemoi So apparently there really is no problem that cannot be solved with the proper application of explosives.
Lttlemoi Hope no cool guys look at them explosions!
눈 ͜ಎ눈 filthy weabist Cancer Curing Hospital staring Megan fox Direacted by Michacl Bay coming to a theater near you
*"the new cure came in with a bang"*
Every time he said buckyball I just thought about Captain Americas sidekick!
Still an interesting episode even if I knew most of the science already, the history stuff was interesting!
Matt Appleton same here bro
I'm with you guys till the end of the line
Matt Appleton I thought of the neodymium magnet brand. Weird
Matt Appleton I kept thinking of One piece when he said buckyball.
Bucky the Pirate and his highly explosive buckyball.
Squeashy No likes for the movie line reference? These people are scrubs.
Attacking cancer cells with nano explosions? when did Michael Bay got a title in medicine?
1:59 60 Carbon atoms with 12 protons each. Pretty sure Carbon only has 6 protons.
Maybe you meant nucleons?
MBogdos96 Yeah, he definitely meant nucleons.
MBogdos96 He most likely ment the atomic mass number
FlyingJetpack1 yeah, when he quoted the number 720, he was referring to the molecular weight of C60, and 12 the molecular weight of each carbon atom. Slight typo on the show.
***** Someone didn't get their full sleep in the office of scishow.
My teacher will whip us if we will make such a mistake (It can really cost a test >_
FlyingJetpack1 You mean mass number, right?
"I have good news and bad news, which do you want to hear first?"
"The good news."
"Well, I can't explain the good news before saying the bad news, so here goes. You have a tumor, but it is treatable."
"How will you treat it? Chemo? Surgery?"
"No. We're going to blow it up."
As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I though fullerene: C2 chemistry. Somebody's been doing their revision 😄
Too bad the exam was last week. My teacher never really covered this stuff very well.
Cambridge a-level chemistry lol
"Researchers call them Buckybombs" because of course they do.
Winter Soldier Ball: Explosive, partially synthetic, and previously named Bucky.
I thought buckyballs were little magnetic spheres you could stick together and play with and kids could choke on.
This was excellent! I've read about fullerenes for a while but no one broke it all down like this.
Although I knew a lot about buckyballs. You guys still provide fun facts and more knowledge for me! I love it!
Great episode as always!
Nice vid bro, look forward to future videos.
Nice video. I had first heard about buckyballs in an old issue of Newsweek around 20 years ago and was curious that it hadn't been talked much about since, being overtaken by carbon fiber and graphene in terms of hype. This is a good reminder. Thanks!
Great episode!
Just Brilliant!! Great Vid!!
Best Scishow Episode yet!
For the past 10 years this molecule has been my favorite. Crazy properties and awesome name
Oh my god. The intercellular starwars-esque warfare images conjured up in my head when you said buckybombs is epic. This needs to happen and we need animations!
It is really cool to hear about "Bucky." I actually live in Carbondale, IL, attending SIU, and he was from around here (or at least he worked at the university at some point) and I live right around the corner from the "Bucky Dome" which is a house with that geodesic dome pattern. Also, "Fat Patties" has a bucky dome burger... It is delicious, and artery ruining.
Jacksepticeye: "I LOVE BALLS!"
Always awesome!
3:28 Loving the Gilbert and Sullivan quotation. Iolanthe :)
FINALLY the Buckyball. Thank you, SciShow.
This is awesome!
Gilbert and Sullivan quote at 3'29", from their comic opera "Iolanthe", Act 2, song "When all night long" sung by Private Willis. Gilbert was referring to the British Parliament, btw.
buckyball is hands down the cutest name for something scientific
Now I really like this. Really good science. No preconceived notions getting in the way of progress. :)
I had an exam on this last week! If only this had been out then. I only remembered what I learned about them because I imagined Bucky Barnes trapped in a tiny carbon football.
Ok I couldn't help laughing when you introduced the term 'buckybomb' lol
I have never taken notes on a youtube video before, now I have!
Great video! Oddly enough, I just heard about c60 in the Al Jazeera dark side of sports documentary. C60 was mentioned as being used "off the record" in the military. It seemed he was alluding to it as a supplement and not a "buckybomb" but they didn't elaborate.
Good documentary and interesting that they mention C60 as it is not a flag substance in sports.
Robert Curl: Okay, thanks.
Wow, really quite extraordinary, particularly the bit about medical uses
Bucky Bombs are both hilarious and terrifying.
Goddamn it SciShow, I want to sleep but your content is so fascinating and informative!
AWESOME!
That member of the British house of lords must have felt pretty stupid when they discovered that C60 nearly doubles the lifespan of rats.
Now i love buckyballs even more.
Now I must see a bucket of "Buckyball Soup" and see it's fluid dynamics in action. Who is up to the challenge of creating this monstrosity?
Imagine if one day, some form of life was made with these bucky balls! Incredibly flexible but can dent diamond? Almost sounds like the perfect body!
Thank you for this information :)
Patient: So doctor, what are you doing?
Doctor: I am just filling your body with explosives.
yeah...
I love this show
came back to here during a material science rabbit hole and I miss that longer SciShow intro
So carbon is the hardest thing on earth now? pfft screw diamond rings now we will make carbon rings!
MrGareth66.com
Diamonds are made of carbon.
Person Bot 27 MrGangsterCabbage well there called diamonds and not carbon. So ye I hope you see my point in the joke there...
Person Bot 27 shut up. dont spoil his dreams
LOL
OWNED
Joseph Fox How was I spoiling his dreams. I was simply stating a fact, and his point is still perfectly valid so long as you replace the word "carbon" with "buckyball." I was just trying to clear up a misconception.
I can imagine atomic stickmen kicking one around in a nano world cup stadium.
Buckyball! Finally something sciencey that is fun to say and easy to spell!
This is the weirdest wonder chemical known to man. Now I want some!
I don't know if I said this already but this is the only popular science thing that I actually learn something. (not because I'm dumb but because I usually know what is being talked about)
I was just reading up on buckminsterfullerene earlier today! What an enjoyable coinky-dink.
Very interesting I’ve heard that Elite Shungite contains the C60 fullerene molecule also thank you for the info
My teacher also told me they use the buckyballs for an almost frictionless matirial in very expensive gears or machines with alot of moving parts that are used on space flights like the ISS.
That is so cool! microscopic explosives!
I'm not sure if it was known at the time of this video, but there is another interesting property of fullerenes : they can form compounds with helium. Really all that they do is entrap it, but if I remember correctly, it still changes the chemical properties.
Buckyballs? Buckybombs? What next? Buckyballbombs?
thank you. The grand design led me here.:)
Carbon can be ugly(charcoal) or shiny(diamond).Weak(charcoal) or strong(carbon nanotubes).Nothing against coal.They do give off very useful heat for everyone to share.
(Question for the next episode):
At the beginning I noticed a strange phenomenon - I started the video, looked away and muted the sound. In my head I was trying to follow/mimic the intro music to the exact moment the episode will start. Even if I mimicked it veeery slowly, the intro music was still much longer in the video than in my head. I finished the music/sound much quicker although I was convinced that I slowed it down in my head alot. Why is this so?
Buckyballs are the greatest toy ever!
Umm, carbon does not have 12 protons...
Qatharsys good one kid ahahah. which planet you from
zhe liu carbon has 6 protons and 6 neutrons making its molecular weight 12
zhe liu I think the question is what universe he is from.
Qatharsys I think he meant carbon 12.
Yeah
Buckminister... that is officially the new best name ever XD
What about making thin-film transistors (TFT) with them, used for example in future screens? It seems to be an interesting semiconductor as well!
The thing I haven't been able to find is, what did the rats eat during this study? And does that contribute to the longevity without tumors. As the first group had tumors when they died of old age...
As one researcher said, we get the same results with the rats on a ketogenic diet, but when the food changed back to a McDonald's type diet, the rat tumor growth spiked overnight, while it was on a 40% decline...?
So my question, which I have not found the answer to, is , does anyone know what food they were feeding these rats in the initial study?
Also, why isn't anyone else asking that question? With such a study, one needs to look at everything, especially in the light of new studies attempting to replicate these results...
Wow Buckybombs... awesome name!!!
If each atom has 12 protons, then we're not talking about carbon, but about magnesium instead...
Rafa Martínez-Avial Yeah, he was talking about carbon 12.
***** Carbon 12 refers to carbon atoms with 12 nucleons, rather than protons...
Yeah and thats the mistake he made.
Rafa Martínez-Avial Yep, it was an error in the video. C60 would have 360 protons and 360 neutrons... if it was all carbon 12.
***** It's a strange mistake for an organic chemist to make, but maybe the error was in the script, and his mind just went on auto-pilot while recording it.
Man these men looks really respectable. Gotta love that
Me reading the title: small spherical magnets that can make really cool things.
We learned that buckyballs existed in high school chemistry but we never actually learned anything about them.
I'm in a loud room so every time you said, "buckyball" I heard "Pokeball." Needless to say, I was pretty excited. "Pokeballs are all around us."
Buckybombs ... who knew something that a little dangerous could sound silly?
Now I have this imagine in my head of a doctor making microscopic airplanes that fly over a tumor and drop bombs on it before returning to base.
that is so cool
How awesome :-)
3:42 .. Can create a substance harder than Diamond you say .. Now that caught my interest. How does it's structure re-arrange? Make a full other episodes on the top hardest/strongest substances/materials, and include this compressed harder-than-diamond buckyball substance please.
I really like the intro music...
Trying to imagine a scientist named Kroto makes me think of a comic book super villain archtype.
Quite interesting . i always wondered why haven't we made ball-shaped atom structures from different materials yet.. so its expensive huh. wonder what other molecule structures we have yet to discover with interesting properties .
The discovery of fullerenes even led to the addition of a new _symbol_ for writing chemical equations:@. As you might guess, it means the substance before the @ symbol is _inside_ the one after it, like H2O @ C60
great vid and nice hair haha
science is amazing
I thought this episode was about those fun little magnetic balls. I was mistaken
holy crap i just learned about buckyball today at school!
which font is used in background text?
Well that's comforting to hear... Buckybombs and medicine in the same sentence. ssssSCIENCE!!
Football!
HugThePolice America.... that is all
Are you aware that in America football is a completely different sport?
HugThePolice Well, its not the American's fault for calling it that.
A user is a person who uses a computer or network service. A user often has a user account.
Ok, but the "football" they play is almost played with the hands and rarely with the feet; off course there are a handball play that is a mixture of basket with football (the real one)and they can´t use that name. The yanks should call their game "rugby with helmets" or "MMA with a ball" and let the real football in peace
HugThePolice
Americans are wrong about a lot of things, like their system of measurement and their spelling of "colour" and "centre", but at least they got the right name for soccer.
I love buckyballs lol
I work in a polymers lab at my college and we work on Organic solar cells, (flexible solar panels.) We use PCBM (Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester) which is a derivative of these buckyballs that is made soluble. We dissolve it in dichlorobenzene normally. It's a decent electron acceptor and can make a thin layer of it within our solar cells.The solar panels are very low performing right now though :(
But we continue on FOR SCIENCE!!
id like to see an episode on Vantablack. very related to this episode.
R.I.P. Rick Smalley. I got to meet him at a Foresight conference many years ago. He spent a lot time patiently explaining the basics of Quantum Mechanics to a single young student who sat near him to ask a few questions. Imagine getting a free one-on-one tutorial from a Nobel Laureate on chemistry. I didn't agree with some of his ideas about mechanosynthesis, but I was really impressed with his kindness and intelligence. I have to wonder if exposure to carbon nanotubes caused his leukemia.
William Dye see link between Carbon 60 Hydrated Fullerenes and Cancer Metastasis ocad.academia.edu/WalterDerzko/Papers
But even better the one free electron on each carbon makes 2 separate Pi Bonding systems across the ball. The P Orbitals distort to stretch wider on the outside and smaller on the inside Giving it an Exo and Endo orbital 'Shell'.
If this came online in april 1st I would not believe it with all of my force. "Buckyballs", "Buckybombs". There is no way.
Also interesting: in 1999 quantum physicists from the University of Vienna managed to show wave-particle duality of C60 molecules, meaning the C60 bucky balls behaved like waves and showed interference!
Can u guys explain where negative blood line came from, I'm very interested to see what your thoughts about negative blood are, it's origins, what's different about it, and is it special.
Freakin' carbon man, it's awesome!
Wtf! I was actually looking for the crash course! N just randomly hit this video! It's the same crash course guy! XD