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nouna form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atomstype of:
Definition that contains fullerene
- curl American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
- smalley American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)
- buckyball a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene
- richard errett smalley American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)
- kroto British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
- richard smalley American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)
- robert floyd curl jr. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
- carbon nanotube a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape
- nanotube a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape
- robert curl American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)