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Build a Buckyball
Make a paper model of a fullerene, also known as a buckyball.
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Ideas, resources and supervision to enable students to create experiments for themselves.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 "for their discovery of fullerenes"
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Drawing Power has a simple but ambitious aim - to get everyone drawing.
 

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