hi all,
does anyone know where I can find a picture or description of the arrangement of a carbon 70 molecule? I already have one for carbon 60.
These are commonly called fullerenes or buckyballs.
Thanks,

Aaron

Here's a description.

http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/frib/html2/fullerene/full11_16.html

If you can understand it though, I applaude you.

Here are some really cool graphics of C60 and C70.

http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/fullerene.html

The first link above just relates the geometry of C-70 to the symmetry group of this particular structure, whose operataions leave the geometry invariant. If you want to study crystals in 0,1,2 and 3D, I'd highly recommend studying some discrete group theory.

here what i could find
http://www.umh.ac.be/~ichim/docs/studs01-02/buckyball-3.gif

yea, well, basically people are trying to find what stable forms of pure carbon would take
most thought only graphite and diamond (actually, diamond is not stable at all, it'll decay back to graphite....tho over a few million years....but still, no, diamonds are NOT forever) prior to the discovery of bucky balls
and...well....turns out there's that bucky ball as another form of stable carbon structure.

actually, diamond is not stable at all, it'll decay back to graphite....tho over a few million years....but still, no, diamonds are NOT forever
Yeah, I knew that, this is the reason why I do not invest my money in diamonds. :D