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Carbon and Phosphorus
In the build-up to the Christmas Lectures in 2012, the Royal Institution published a new video for every day of advent revealing the elements that really excite and inspire people.
Nobel Laureate Sir Harry Kroto relives his discovery of the third form of carbon, the Buckminsterfullerene, before talking about another ground-breaking discovery he made with carbon - the double bond with phosphorus.
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