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The first known example of a fullerene
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buckminsterfullerene
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Buckminsterfullerene (or bucky-ball ) is a spherical fullerene molecule with the formula C. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure ( truncated icosahedron ) which resembles a football (soccer ball) , made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons , with ...
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n. an allotrope of carbon having a hollow molecule consisting of 60 atoms arranged in 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal faces to form a truncated icosahedron; the smallest of the fullerenes
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n. a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene [syn: buckyball ]
Usage examples of buckminsterfullerene.
Probing the processor, Gloria Chews carefully removed a lump of compacted buckminsterfullerene studded with near invisible contact points.
Gloria Chews carefully removed a lump of compacted buckminsterfullerene studded with near invisible contact points.
Thumbkin was able to attract his attention only by using a pair of straight pins as pitons and some buckminsterfullerene monofilament to climb up his pant leg and suit jacket, after which he buttonholed the multibillionaire.
Probing the processor, Gloria Chews carefully removed a lump of compacted buckminsterfullerene studded with near invisible contact points.
Gloria Chews carefully removed a lump of compacted buckminsterfullerene studded with near invisible contact points.
Zafir was an expert in these little carbon geodesic spheres called buckminsterfullerenes, and he waxed enthusiastic: "Temperatures and pressures in the west Tharsis zone of the fall turned out to be similar to those used in the arc-reactor-synthesis method of making fullerenes, and so there's a hundred-kilometer stretch out there where the carbon on the bottom side of the cable consists almost entirely of buckyballs.