Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extremely stable, ball-shaped carbon molecule, C60, reminiscent of a geodesic dome, and believed to occur naturally in soot. It was the first fullerene to be discovered.
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- noun an
allotrope ofcarbon having ahollow molecule consisting of 60atoms arranged in 12pentagonal and 20hexagonal faces to form atruncated icosahedron ; the smallest of thefullerenes
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- noun a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene
Etymologies
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Examples
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To understand how the carbon atoms in buckminsterfullerene are connected to each other, we need only recall the pattern on the surface of a soccer ball, or European football.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 - Presentation Speech 1997
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The buckminsterfullerene was the first molecule to be discovered in the class of materials that subsequently became known as fullerenes.
Nano Tech Wire 2010
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The buckminsterfullerene was the first molecule to be discovered in the class of materials that subsequently became known as fullerenes.
Nano Tech Wire 2010
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Tom LetourneauCumberland, R. I.Chemists Get the CreditYour June 30 story "Bucky's Very Large Dome" on Buckminster Fuller stated that "physicists discovered the soccer-ball-shaped carbon C60 molecule" and named it "buckminsterfullerene" for its resemblance to Fuller's geodesic domes.
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In 1985, a group of chemists discovered a new class of soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecules that they dubbed "buckminsterfullerene," or "buckyballs."
unknown title 2009
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Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball
Jules Verne, French science fiction pioneer, marked with Google doodle 2011
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Nanomaterials including buckminsterfullerene have toxicity issues, but on the other hand, they have all kinds of environmental and biomedical uses.
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However, after Rice University professors Robert Curl and Richard Smalley won the Nobel Prize (with Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex) for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, Rice started a major research effort in nanoscale science and technology.
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They dubbed it buckminsterfullerene -- or "bucky ball" to its fans.
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In 1999 atoms of an extremely heavy isotope of carbon, known as “buckminsterfullerene” were shown to be capable of entanglement: they proved to have wave properties as well as corpuscular properties.
Ervin Laszlo : EARTH, LIFE, AND MIND : THE PROMISE OF THE NEW HOLISM IN THE SCIENCES 2008
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