Carbon Allotropes-5 Models

SKU: 68620W

$129.95USD Each

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This carbon allotrope kit has 5 models: a nanotube & buckyball; 3 layer graphite (which can be built as the alpha or beta form); diamond; & body centered tetragonal for only $129.95. Note that body centered tetragonal is theoretical & is included to represent the many hypothetical forms that have been postulated.

For more information on the forms in this kit and others such as graphenylene, chaoite, & metallic carbon, see Allotropes of Carbon.

Indigo Instruments has maintained a substantial inventory of genuine Cochranes of Oxford (Orbit) parts for 30+ years and are compatible with every molecular model kit we have sold. This level of quality may appear expensive but no parts support from other vendors costs even more.
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The nanotube & buckyball are essentially 2 versions of the same thing but they can be combined to make a longer tube or a single large graphene sheet or nanoribbon.

Instructions on how to build these structures can be found under each of the individual respective models.

 

Parts
P/NDescriptionQTY
68186-30Wobbly bond, 30mm, each656
68186-50Wobbly bond, 50mm, each12
68241CAtom, Orbit, C "j", planar: 120-120-120, black210
68244CAtom, Orbit, C "k", tetrahedral, black135
68259CAtom, Orbit, C "m", trigonal bipyramidal, black53
Reviews (2)
2023-11-27

Playing with carbon atoms can be addicting! The structures you can create help teach about carbon's 4 valence electrons, single bonds, and double bonds. Very cool. So far, I've made a small sheet of graphene (easy) and a tiny piece of diamond (much harder). To understand the alternating up/down tetrahedral structure of the diamond lattice, try this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_cubic#/media/File:Diamond_lattice.stlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_cubic#/media/File:Diamond_lattice.stl No instructions, but if you rotate the online model enough and finally realize that some atoms point up and some point down, you'll be able to figure it out. Tip: wear gloves. Pushing the bonds onto the atoms will wear your fingers out!

— DPScience
— Indigo:

Thanks for the feedback. Because these compounds are all lattice structures with repetitive unit cells, we felt that a picture was actually simpler to follow than written instructions. Perhaps adding some stereo pairs would be better. The bonds are indeed very stiff on first use. We have tried softer as well as harder ones but these are the best tradeoff. They provide long term durability as well as ensuring structural integrity. The simplest solution actually is to put the bonds in your pocket for 10-15 minutes before first use to soften them up.

2022-12-06

Very excited to put my kit together. My team is working to eliminate the company\'s carbon footprint so this is pretty cool. 4 star bc no instructions came with the carbon allotropes large kit.

— CricketXO
— Indigo:

Duly noted...we forgot to include them.

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