fullerene
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fullerene noun
- 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.
- Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
- (by extension) The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).
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