Fullerene

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various cagelike, hollow molecules composed of hexagonal and pentagonal groups of atoms, and especially those formed from carbon, that constitute the third form of carbon after diamond and graphite.
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  • n. 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
  • n. any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms
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  • n. a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    c    carbon    atomic number 6   
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