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Word: fullerene (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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Noun:

  • inorganic chemistry 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
  • organic chemistry any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms

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