A scientist from england, harry croto, applied for time to go on a lazer that was down at rice university. And he worked with a scientist there, richard smalley and robert curl to do this experiment. They were studying carbon clusters in space when they got the same results every time. So what could it be? The scientists thought maybe it had something to do with dome. But actually smalley went back and made a cardboard model and figured out a truncated icasahedron was the shape.

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