🚀 OMG, guys! Let's rotate some carbon bonds and call it a "transformation" because who wouldn't want a soccer ball to become a mutant octopus? 🤯 Apparently, twisting hexagons in #graphene is the new way to make science sound thrilling. 🧪💥
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/stone-wales-transformation/ #carbonbonds #transformation #scienceinnovation #mutantoctopus #HackerNews #ngated
Stone–Wales Transformations

Buckminsterfullerene is a molecule shaped like a soccer ball, made of 60 carbon atoms. If one of the bonds between two hexagons rotates, we get a weird mutant version of this molecule: This is an e…

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