fullerene

See also: Fullerene and fullerène

English

Etymology

After Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, +‎ -ene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊləɹˌin/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fullerene (plural fullerenes)

1. (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.
2. (organic chemistry) Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
3. (chemistry, by extension) The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).

Derived terms

• endohedral fullerene

Related terms

• buckminsterfullerene
• fullerane
• fulleride
• fulleroid

Translations

any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules

• Azerbaijani: fulleren
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 富勒烯 (fùlèxī), 足球烯 (zúqiúxī), 巴克球 (bākèqiú), 巴基球 (bājīqiú)

• Czech: fullereny
• Finnish: fullereeni (fi)
• French: fullerène (fr) m
• German: Fullerene n, Fulleren n
• Greek: φουλερένιο n (foulerénio)
• Hungarian: fullerén
• Ido: fulereno (io)
• Irish: fullairéin
• Japanese: フラーレン
• Lithuanian: fulerenas
• Persian: فولرن
• Portuguese: fulereno (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਫੂਲੇਰੀਨਜ਼ (phūlerīnaz)
• Turkish: fulleren
• Ukrainian: фулерени (fulereny), бакіболи (bakiboly)

See also

• buckyball
• buckytube
• nanoparticle
• nanotube

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Fullerene”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “fullerene”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful.leˈrɛ.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛne
• Hyphenation: ful‧le‧rè‧ne

Noun

fullerene m (plural fullereni)

1. fullerene

Further reading

• fullerene in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana