buckminsterfullerene

See also: buckminsterfullerène

English

Etymology

From the name of Richard Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, +‎ -ene.

Noun

buckminsterfullerene (plural buckminsterfullerenes)

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.

Synonyms

footballene

See also

Further reading

“Buckminsterfullerene” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
“buckminsterfullerene”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

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