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Describes the potentials of bucky balls (buckminsterfullerene), only the third form of pure carbon known. Name from inventor Buckminster Fuller; Discovery of the strange molecule in 1985 by chemist Richard Smalley of Rice University; Could serve as the slipperiest lubricants ever devised; Other potentials including carrying electricity with no resistance when spiked with potassium.
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