Definitions | fullerene |
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- 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
Etymology: from w:Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
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