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C60
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C60Buckminsterfullerene
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The Buckminsterfullerene, or "buckyball," launched the field of carbon nanotechnology and won its co-discoverers the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Portraits in carbon: forget oxygen--carbon may be the most important ... by Neff, Todd / World Watch
Each wheel was a molecule called buckminsterfullerene, which consists of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a pattern that looks like the surface of a soccer ball.
Atomic drive by Sohn, Emily / Science News for Kids
62) Indeed, there are only a few basic building blocks in nanotechnology that are unpatented, notably buckminsterfullerene.
Patenting nanotechnology by Lemley, Mark A. / Stanford Law Review
 
 
 
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