buckminsterfullerene

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Definition of buckminsterfullerene in English Turkish dictionary

bukminsterfuleren

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Definition of buckminsterfullerene in English English dictionary

an allotrope of carbon having a hollow molecule consisting of 60 atoms arranged in 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal faces to form a truncated icosahedron; the smallest of the fullerenes

a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene

carbon 60 (C60, Buckyball) the third form of carbon, after graphite and diamond, discovered in 1985 by Richard Smalley, Harold Kroto, and Robert Curl for which they won the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry Named to honor the architect of the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller, because the dome's shell resembles the fullerenes' hollow-core construction

Buckminsterfullerenes were discovered in September 1985 by Harry Kroto and David Walton They consist of spherical or tubular molecules of carbon atoms They are seen by many as important for structural components in MNT systems due to their unique physical properties, the least of which being strength and stability on the nanometer scale More details are available at New Scientist Planet Science

Kroto/Smalley found carbon's 3rd form 1985; named after BF; spherical, cage-like geodesic molecules; part of larger "fullerene" family

Etymology

() from Richard Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome