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buckminsterfullerene

Form of carbon, made up of molecules (buckyballs) consisting of 60 carbon atoms arranged in 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons to form a perfect sphere. It was named after the US architect and engineer Richard Buckminster Fuller because of its structural similarity to the geodesic dome that he designed. See fullerene.

In 1996, buckyballs were found in an impact crater in Ontario, Canada. The crater was made by a comet or meteorite 1.85 billion years ago.



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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.
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