buckyball
Noun
Meaning
a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene
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In 1999, the double-slit experiment was successfully performed with buckyball molecules (each of which comprises 60 carbon atoms).
The B 80 structure, with each atom forming 5 or 6 bonds, is predicted to be more stable than the C 60 buckyball.
These OBBs are created by binding atoms of a transition metal (TM) to C 60 or C 48 B 12 and then binding many hydrogen atoms to this TM atom, dispersing them evenly throughout the inside of the organometallic buckyball.
They are patterned after the buckyball model.