FULLERENE

fullerene

(noun) a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

After Richard Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.

Noun

fullerene (plural fullerenes)

(inorganic chemistry) 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.

(organic chemistry) Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.

(chemistry, by extension) The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).

Source: Wiktionary

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