科学60秒:足球烯与水分子的不解之缘
Placing a molecule that's essential to life within a spherically ___1___one could let researchers learn more about each.
Water molecules___2___together, because they carry a slight charge on each end. As the positive pole of one H2O attracts the negative pole of another, the molecules ___3__together. You can't separate a single water molecule from its fellows with a tiny pair of tweezers, so isolating it in a carbon cage may reveal new secrets about the intrinsic nature of a lone H2O.
What about the cage itself? Researchers already know that buckyballs refuse to dissolve in water, sometimes even floating like ___4___ beach balls. But what happens when the water is within? Putting polar molecules inside buckyballs may influence the chemical behavior of their outsides, and create new molecules with unique ___5___. Not to mention making our understanding even…fuller.
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