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buckyball

(Encyclopedia) buckyball, colloquial term for buckminsterfullerene, a roughly spherical fullerene molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms. Buckytube is a generic term for cylindrical fullerenes.

buckminsterfullerene

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Buckminsterfullerene buckminsterfullerenebuckminsterfullerenebŭkˌmĭnstərf&oobreve;lˈərēnˌ, –f&oobreve;lˌərēnˈ [key] or buckyball, C60, hollow cage carbon molecule named…

Smalley, Richard Errett

(Encyclopedia) Smalley, Richard Errett, 1943–2005, American chemist, b. Akron, Ohio, Ph.D. Princeton, 1973. He was a professor at Rice Univ. in Houston, Tex., from 1976 until his death in 2005.…

2000 Intel Science Talent Search Top Ten Winners

First Place: $50,000 scholarship, Natalia Toro, 14, Fairview High School, Boulder, Colo., for her physics project “Independent Analysis of Evidence for nu_mu <—> nu_tau Oscillations in…

Glossary of Chemical Terms - A

AA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z achiral Describes any molecule or object that is superimposable upon its mirror image. acid A compound that produces hydrogen ions in water…