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How to fill a buckyball?

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Hoe vul ik een Buckyball? (How to fill a buckyball?)
VPRO Noorderlicht / 25 min / 1996
Prof Gerard Meijer wants to fill buckyballs (footballshaped carbon molecules) with gasmolecules. A portrait of a group doing the kind of fundamental research for which the justification is recently questioned so much. What is the need of fundamental research if no practicall spin-offs are in sight?

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