HyperDic: buckminsterfullerene

English > 1 sense of the word buckminsterfullerene:
NOUNsubstancebuckminsterfullerene, buckyballa spheroidal fullerene
English > buckminsterfullerene: 1 sense > noun 1, substance
MeaningA spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene.
Synonymbuckyball
BroaderfullereneA form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms

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