Nano technology.

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_Imwashingmypirate
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Nano technology.

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First of all I would like to state that I need a wee and so will make this as haste as possibe.

As we all should know there is such a thing as a nanotube. Yes?
Nanotubes are very similar to that of "Bucky Balls" a.k.a. Buckminster Fullerene a.k.a. (for the geometrists out there) Truncatedicosahedron, in that they are elongated bucky balls.

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I have this exact same thing on my shelf.

The white lines are double bonds and the red are single bonds.

Having used what little brains I have left I queried that it might be possible that there be a bucky ball inside another by making the double bonds single. And then i said there could be bucky balls attached to the outside of the original bucky ball. i discussed this with a man that worked with the dude at Sussex uni on something that lead to the discovery of the Bucky ball.

So when in lectures I had fallen asleap but somehow got excited unconscously when bucky ball was mentioned and so I had become more alert.
The proffessor was talking about nano tubes and as we know nanotubes are just elongated bucky balls.

Oh i know why that picture is exactly the same as mine. Because the website it came from is the website of the dude that gave it to me.

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However the problem with nano tubes is the longest nanotube possible is only a couple of inches and Physicists and Chemists are looking to discover a way to make a nanotube longer. Well I have an idea. One could simply attach nanotubes together to make it longer. Yes it will have slight week points but it will still be stronger than most organic chemical compounds because there are so many bonds that it would take a great amount of energy to break. Also it could be possible to make nano sheets by taking these nanotubes that have been made longer and attach them side by side. Like when electon orbitals covalently bond, they either join by a sigma bond or a pi bond i.e. at the ends or at the sides. I believe the sigma bond is the latter and the stronger of the two.

And thus my idea. now I must go to the lavie.
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