Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fullerene nanotube.
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- noun a
nanotube
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Shortening and alteration of buckminsterfullerene + tube.]
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From buckyball, tube.
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Examples
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An elongated chemical cousin called the buckytube is also showing great promise.
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These previously unknown soccer-ball-shaped molecules of 60 carbon atoms, and their "buckytube" cousins, promise to revolutionize materials science, producing structures 100 times stronger than steel but with only one sixth the weight.
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