Buckyball fullerene from neodymium supermagnet spheres

> poles?

North hemisphere, southern hemisphere

There are no poles

Make more vids :) i love them

By the way wbeaty- I think your videos are fantastic; been watching them over the past week or so. You'd make a great teacher! keep up the good work- it doesn't go unappreciated:)

> fascinating molecule

Also, they apparently form as 30-carbon hemispheres. The two "clamshells" find each other and snap together to form a sphere. If ions of other elements bonded to the cleft in one hemisphere, then you end up with a caged ion trapped inside.

You can create this process with the magnets, though there's a trick to it.

yes- I've heard of intercalated fullerenes. They can also be used to cap carbon nanotubes, and they can even trap bucky balls in a nanotube providing there's a large enough diameter; so-called nano pea-shooters and pea-pods. A research group in my department are doing all sorts of wonderful things with nanorods and fullerenes. Fascinating stuff!

And sell your diamonds quick, before the fast-CVD growth trick gets out. I want hunks of diamond, cheap as hunks of SiC, or at least sapphire.

i was going to get some magnets but they sayed it was N50 whatdoes that mean?

N50 is stronger, but expensive. The magnets above are 8mm size, N35

N50 is the magnetic strength of the material. But smaller magnets are also weaker. If you buy tiny magnets, N35 magnets act weaker.