Clear: The true color of C-60

Drew Davidson
7 min readAug 3, 2018

For a while now I’ve been following the buzz around a product called Carbon 60, or just C-60. There are some amazing testimonials about the product.

So I decided to do some research. What I found was very interesting and not at all what I expected.

For starters, for the better part of two decades now, a purple color has been the standard for determining if a product contains C-60. A purple color!

C-60 turns purple when mixed with Olive oil. Just about everybody who manufactures this stuff makes that claim.

As it turns out, that purple color comes from residual toluene left over from the manufacturing process.

Yeah, you read that right. RESIDUAL TOLUENE! Or, residual amounts of other solvents such as benzene or xylene.

So what color is untainted C-60?

Clear!

So how do we know this to be true? Scientists proved it. Back in 2008.

Working at the highly-regarded St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia, a team of scientists lead by K. N. Semenov discovered some amazing things.

Before we delve into the work done by Dr. Semenov’s team, though, let’s take a look at the credibility of the school itself.

St. Petersburg State University is the oldest and one of the largest universities in Russia. It was founded while…

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