How To Use Buckyball In A Sentence
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The buckyball components were broken down to elements and stable compounds, and stored in a room no bigger than a house.
METAPLANETARY
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Discovered in 1991 by Japanese scientist Sumio Iijima, carbon nanotubes are cylindrical carbon molecules that are very similar in structure to a fullerene, or buckyball, but instead of being a sphere, the nanotube is tubular in shape.
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he droplet, which is about 1mm 10 million times larger than an atom, is also one million times larger than the second largest object--a 2-nm molecule called a buckyball--whose wave-particle duality was observed in 2003.
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The early promise of the spherical all-carbon fullerenes, better known to non-chemists as buckyballs, have not yet lived up to their early hype.
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She kept young largemouth bass in ten-litre aquariums filled with buckyball-contaminated water.
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When 12 of buckminsterfullerene's 60 carbons are replaced by nitrogens, it can link up with other ‘buckyballs ‘to form a strong and springy material.’
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Rice Chemistry Professor Lon Wilson decided to create a buckyball-vancomycin conjugate following years of work developing biochemical targeting mechanisms for buckyballs, spherical cages containing 60 carbon molecules.
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These elongated relatives of the buckyball can be metallic, semiconducting, or even insulating depending on their helicity and diameter.
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Smalley was the recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of closed, hollow cages of carbon atoms known as buckyballs.
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For those who don't know, a buckyball is an extremely stable soccer-ball-shaped molecule made up of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.
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The nanodragster combines the best of both worlds, with buckyball rear tires and p-carborane front wheels.
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Buckyballs are members of a class of all-carbon, cage-shaped molecules now known as fullerenes.
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Lockheed Martin is sponsoring the Year of the Nano, Rice's celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the buckminsterfullerene molecule -- the "buckyball" -- that enables nanotechnology.
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Also known as fullerenes, buckyballs have recently been touted for their potential applications in everything from drug delivery to energy transmission.
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Researchers have been looking for ways to use the soccer-ball-shaped molecules of pure carbon known as fullerenes, or buckyballs, since they were first synthesized, about a decade ago.
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Named after the architect Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic dome the fullerene resembles, the sturdy carbon molecule (also nicknamed buckyball) has emerged as one of the most versatile tools in the rapidly developing nanotechnology arsenal.
Tiny Weapons With Giant Potential
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Also known as fullerenes, buckyballs have recently been touted for their potential applications in everything from drug delivery to energy transmission.
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Buckyballs, of buckminsterfullerene, are soccer-ball-shaped assemblages of 60 carbon atoms.
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A research team has identified a new biological function for a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle called a buckyball -- the ability to block allergic response, setting the stage for the development of new therapies for allergy.
June 20th, 2007
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Molecules of fullerene are more commonly referred to as ‘buckyballs.’
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Not only are further studies needed about the environmental effects of buckyballs, but on the buckyballs themselves.
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Not just any carbon molecule, but a "buckyball" -- 60 carbon atoms arranged in the shape of a soccer ball, with the same structure as the geodesic dome popularized by Buckminster Fuller.
Get Ready For Nanotechnology
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he droplet, which is about 1mm 10 million times larger than an atom, is also one million times larger than the second largest object--a 2-nm molecule called a buckyball--whose wave-particle duality was observed in 2003.
Now This is Cool!
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In 1985, a group of chemists discovered a new class of soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecules that they dubbed "buckminsterfullerene," or "buckyballs.
Undefined
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Using a method for assessing the premiums that companies pay for insurance, a team of scientists and insurance experts have concluded that the manufacturing processes for five, near-market nanomaterials -- including quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and buckyballs -- present fewer risks to the environment than some common industrial processes like oil refining.
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A new study from Rice University predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms.
They say Newton was mad, they said Tesla was mad,
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But instead of buckyballs, they spice the mixture with nano-size semiconducting wires or pinheads called quantum dots.
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Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball
Jules Verne, French science fiction pioneer, marked with Google doodle
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The arrangement of the atoms is similar to that found in fullerenes - the near-spherical carbon structures also known as buckyballs.
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For those who don't know, a buckyball is an extremely stable soccer-ball-shaped molecule made up of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.
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University of Western Ontario astronomer Jan Cami holds a model of the C60 molecule buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, which he and his team have discovered in space using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Toronto Sun
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The design is printed in thermochromic ink, so when the stamp is heated - such as by placing a finger on it - the ink changes colour to reveal an ion enclosed within the ‘buckyball’ cage.
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The digital text also captured the evolving structure of a living language, and almost a half-million English words that have appeared since 1950, partly reflecting the growing number of technical terms, such as buckyball, netiquette and phytonutrient.
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Smalley won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of buckminsterfullerene, fondly known as the "buckyball" in industry circles.
The Speculist: Richard Smalley: Visionary and Pioneer
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The diamond core remains intact, but the surface breaks into carbon hexagons and pentagons, effectively encasing the diamond in a shell similar to a buckyball, which is also called a fullerene.
