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Chemists Make First-Ever Ring of Pure Carbon
A team of researchers has synthesized the first ring-shaped molecule of pure carbon — a circle of 18 atoms. Nature reports: The chemists started with a triangular molecule of carbon and oxygen, which they manipulated with electric currents to create the carbon-18 ring. Initial studies of the properties of the molecule, called a cyclocarbon, suggest that it acts as a semiconductor,…