C60 - the Buckminsterfullerene
Kirt's Cogitations™ #125

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C60 - the Buckminsterfullerene

Buckminsterfullerene - now there's a new word for your nanotechnology lexicon. It happens to be the name for carbon 60 (C60, Buckyball), the third form of carbon, after diamond and graphite, discovered in 1985 by Richard Smalley, Harold Kroto and Robert Curl. It won them the Nobel Prize in 1996. Mr. Buckminster Fuller was the architect of the geodesic dome shell model with a hollow core that bears his name.

Innovative Power Products (IPP) RF Combiners / Dividers - RF Cafe Website

RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...