fullerene

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.2 Related terms 1.3 See also 2 Italian 2.1 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

from Richard Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome

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Wikipedia

fullerene (plural fullerenes)

1. (inorganic chemistry) any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules whose atoms lie at the vertices of a polyhedron having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal faces
2. (organic chemistry) any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms

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• buckminsterfullerene
• fullerane
• fulleride
• fulleroid

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• buckyball
• buckytube
• nanoparticle
• nanotube

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

fullerene m. (plural fullereni)

1. fullerene