Imagine... a Fullerene... which is of course 60 atoms of carbon arranged in the famous tightly bound sphere, and known to be superconductor in certain conditions -- but now we fully hydrogenate these carbon atoms with deuterium to produce C60D60.
I can think of no reason that this cannot be done. A brief google turns up nothing for this exact species, but did turn up an indication that the hydrogen version, C60H60 has been made in the Lab... If C60 will hydrogenate at all, then it should be possible to use only deuterium to arrive at C60D60. The reason: well, consider that FD or Fullerene Deuteride - C60D60 - would have interesting nuclear properties - as a massive stable boson in a dense unit. Eat your heart out, Higgs :-) Carbon is all three boson types: a nuclear boson, an atomic boson and a molecular boson. Ditto for deuterium. Ditto for FD but, wow... FD has an atomic weight of 840 amu. That's almost 7 times more massive than the Higgs, and extremely stable. It is probably superconductive as well, but that is a guess. Thus, FD would be a massive boson in a perfect sphere containing nuclear active isotopes and possibly superconductive, and one more feature - in the size range of many excitons. Of course, there are larger Fullerenes (in amu) but carbon alone has high nuclear stability so having lots of deuterium present could make this hyper-boson most interesting for fusion ... say as a target for ICF... or even for implosion by SPP. Who knows? FD-CF or FD-ICF ... take your pick. You heard it first on Vortex... :-)
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