Definition of fullerene Fullerene
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What does fullerene mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: fullerenes |
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| fullerene - a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms | ||
| atomic number 6, carbon, c a copy made with carbon paper | ||
| chemical science, chemistry the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | ||
| buckminsterfullerene, buckyball a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | ||
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Wiktionary 
- fullerene (Noun)
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. - fullerene (Noun)
Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
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fullerene
One of a family of carbon allotropes sometimes called buckyballs, when in a spherical configuration.
