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  • noun Plural form of buckyball.

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Examples

  • I still get hits for people interested in buckyballs, and no doubt mislead a few ... so I've linked the buckyballs here in this post to the correction, not the original post.

    Happy Birthday, Wordhoard! Richard Nokes 2006

  • Finally, "buckyballs" - microscopic football-shaped cages of carbon - can be absorbed by simple organisms, according to the report, raising concerns that they could contaminate the food chain.

    Mathaba Highlights Briefing 2008

  • Finally, "buckyballs" - microscopic football-shaped cages of carbon - can be absorbed by simple organisms, according to the report, raising concerns that they could contaminate the food chain.

    Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2008

  • Finally, "buckyballs" - microscopic football-shaped cages of carbon - can be absorbed by simple organisms, according to the report, raising concerns that they could contaminate the food chain.

    Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk 2008

  • The research recently appeared in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology and represents the first-ever observation of this kind for spherical fullerenes, also known as buckyballs, which take their names from the late Buckminster Fuller because they resemble the geodesic dome concept that he popularized.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The research recently appeared in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology and represents the first-ever observation of this kind for spherical fullerenes, also known as buckyballs, which take their names from the late Buckminster Fuller because they resemble the geodesic dome concept that he popularized.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The research recently appeared in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology and represents the first-ever observation of this kind for spherical fullerenes, also known as buckyballs, which take their names from the late Buckminster Fuller because they resemble the geodesic dome concept that he popularized.

    innovations-report 2010

  • The research recently appeared in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology and represents the first-ever observation of this kind for spherical fullerenes, also known as buckyballs, which take their names from the late Buckminster Fuller because they resemble the geodesic dome concept that he popularized.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Large molecules consisting only of carbon, known as buckyballs

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Fullerenes, also known as buckyballs, take their names from the late Buckminster Fuller because they resemble the geodesic dome concept that he popularised.

    Medindia Health News 2010

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  • buckminsterfullerene

    December 17, 2008

  • Not to be confused with detachiballs.

    December 17, 2008