fullerene

See also: Fullerene and fullerène

English

Etymology

After Richard Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.

Noun

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.
3. (chemistry, by extension) The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).

Translations

any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules

• Finnish: fullereeni (fi)
• French: fullerène (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: fullerén
• Ido: fulereno (io)

Related terms

• buckminsterfullerene
• fullerane
• fulleride
• fulleroid

See also

• buckyball
• buckytube
• nanoparticle
• nanotube

External links

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Fullerene”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “fullerene”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

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Italian

Noun

fullerene m (plural fullereni)

1. fullerene