Crossword clues for buckyball
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context chemistry informal English) A buckminsterfullerene molecule (C60). 2 by extension, the most common types of spheroidal fullernes, C60 and C70 usually, with additionally C72 and C76 also included at times 3 by extension, any spheroidal fullerene, from C20 on upwards n. 1 (context chemistry informal English) A buckminsterfullerene molecule (C60). 2 by extension, the most common types of spheroidal fullernes, C60 and C70 usually, with additionally C72 and C76 also included at times 3 by extension, any spheroidal fullerene, from C20 on upwards
WordNet
n. a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene [syn: buckminsterfullerene]
Wikipedia
Buckyball may refer to:
- Buckyball (football), a truncated icosahedron design of an association football commonly seen in modern balls
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Buckyball (molecule) or buckminsterfullerene, a molecule whose cage-like fused-ring structure resembles a soccer ball
- Buckyball surface, a mathematical surface describing the surface of the molecule
- Fullerene or buckyball, any molecule composed of carbon in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, and many other shapes
- Buckyball (toy), neodymium magnets marketed as toys
Usage examples of "buckyball".
It was a buckyball, a carbon fullerene molecule, the half-living, half-machine building-brick of the Chaga.
Feynman and Drexler and Merkle, Chen and Singh and Finkle-McGraw reposed on a numinous buckyball, some of them reading books and some pointing toward the work-in-progress in a manner that implied constructive criticism.
A buckytube is simply a buckyball with a long, winding spiral of hexagons between two half-buckyball end caps.
Doping them with compounds like tantalum carbide makes them into submicron-sized superconducting wires, and packing them with potassium-doped buckyballs achieves the same effect, and if the buckytube is sized properly to fit the buckyball such packing would probably also serve to increase their already phenomenal stiffness and boost their compressive strength as well.
We make our big electromagnetic fields in there, the fields we use to build our buckyball Casimir engines.
A fluorinated buckyball spinning at a hundred teraradians per second packs five times as much energy as rocket fuel in one tenth the volume-you can fly around Mars all day on that.
The buckyball components were broken down to elements and stable compounds, and stored in a room no bigger than a house.
Torque forces that would easily separate material made of mere chemical bonds cannot overcome the strong force manifested by the buckyball SQUIDs, and the Met holds together.
Much of Crescent City was made of ultralight, ultrastrong buckyball material, material that responded quickly, although within preset parameters, to requests for change.
In its light, she stripped out of the skirt with a Velcro rip and pulled off the buckyball thing.
Buckminster-fullerenes, more commonly called buckyballs, on meteorites.
Discovered in 1985 during a space experiment with carbon molecules, buckyballs have continued to astound scientists.
Experiments with pure carbon buckyballs have created a lubricant with almost no drag.
Naturally occurring buckyballs had been found in the location of meteorite craters.
Dwyer should recover some of these extraterrestrial buckyballs and start experimenting.