The Daily Poem

C60

"Icosa" means twenty (in Greek)

And "hedron" means face.

A true congnoscenti (is Latin)

For knowing a lot of one field;

Like solid geometry (geek!)

Or deep inner space,

Or Nanobiology :-)grin(-:

The stuff that has long been concealed.

The icosahedron (is neat).

Take all of the vertexes,

Truncate the apexes

Squarely in line with the base—

An opposite face.

And when they're all gone, (s-weet!)

If seeing's believing, you've seen,

A Buckminsterfullerene!

~ D. Edgar Lamp (Novel Verse Form)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_icosahedron