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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
buckminsterfullerene
 
SYLLABICATION:buck·min·ster·ful·ler·ene
PRONUNCIATION:  bkmn-str-fl-rn
NOUN: An extremely stable, ball-shaped carbon molecule, C60, reminiscent of a geodesic dome, and believed to occur naturally in soot. It was the first fullerene to be discovered.
ETYMOLOGY:After Richard Buckminster Fuller.
 
 
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