buckyball

Other forms: buckyballs

Definitions of buckyball
  1. noun
    a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene
    synonyms: buckminsterfullerene
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    type of:
    fullerene
    a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms
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