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What Is Architectural Engineering - Episode 321

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Bucky Buckminster Fluorine - A 60 Carbon Soccer Ball Shaped Molecular

Buckminster Fluorine is a molecule that was developed at the university, Rice University in 1985. And they got a Nobel Prize in 1996 and they named it after this architectural engineer. Bucky balls are BB size super strong magnets. They're made out of neodym. In 2013, the US consumer product and safety commission made them illegal because whenever you accidentally swallow these as a dog or a kid and another one goes in there, it creates all kinds of intestinal problems.

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