The rally monkey came to national and world-wide attention during the Angels' appearance in the 2002 World Series, again against the San Francisco Giants. In the sixth game, the Angels were playing at home, but were trailing the series 3-2 and facing elimination.
Meet PG5, the largest stable synthetic molecule ever made. With a diameter of 10 nanometres and a mass equal to 200 million hydrogen atoms, this huge molecule festooned with tree-like appendages, paves the way to sophisticated structures capable of storing drugs within their folds, or bonding to a wide variety of different substances.
A molecule is a particle made up of two or more atoms that are chemically bonded together; the number of atomic nuclei making up a molecule is a determinate number. For example, HCl (g) is a molecule made of one hydrogen atom bonded to one chlorine atom. It is made of two atoms and is called a diatomic molecule. A crystal of NaCl (s) is not a molecule: it is an ionic lattice made up of an indeterminate number of atoms. Carbon dioxide is a molecule made of two oxygen atoms bonded to a carbon atom. It contains three atoms and is called a triatomic molecule. Silicon dioxide - best known as quartz - exists as an large covalent network made up of an indeterminate number of atoms.