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In the focus: Researchers Reveal Structure of Carbon’s ‘Hoyle State’

In the focus: Researchers Reveal Structure of Carbon’s ‘Hoyle State’, Innovations Report, Dec. 12, 2012. A North Carolina State University researcher has taken a “snapshot” of the way particles combine to form carbon-12, the element that makes all life on Earth possible. And the picture looks like a bent arm. Dean Lee, physics, featured.