fullerene

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈfʊləɹˌin/

Definition of fullerene

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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.
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noun

  1. 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. Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
  3. (broadly)The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).

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Etymology

After Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, + -ene.

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