Buckyball

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Zoe Brain (2006)

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. ❋ Robert Lee Hotz (2010)

A new study from Rice University predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Smalley won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of buckminsterfullerene, fondly known as the "buckyball" in industry circles. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Astronomers have discovered a rare form of carbon known as a 'buckyball' in space for the first time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many of the new arrivals to dictionaries, like "buckyball" and "netiquette," have seen an explosive rise in use. ❋ John Timmer (2010)

Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dr. KROTO: No, it can't get out of the buckyball, and that's - it's physically caged in a different way from standard chemical problems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It should be possible to make them nontoxic by putting them inside the buckyball. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In an exciting extension of this work—proposed by Roger Penrose, the renowned Oxford physicist—not just light but a small mirror that reflects it becomes part of an entangled quantum system, one that is billions of times larger than a buckyball. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

I tried to rodeo Sue-Ellen last night but she [threw me] and I got [buckyballed]. Man, my balls are sore. I tried to rodeo [Pammy] and got buckyballed when she kicked me. ❋ Cuksocker (2010)

*i’m gonna use the word [bucky] in my sentenxs* “Dude! [what the f] is buckyballs?” “i [dee] kay man” ❋ Buckyballs? (2021)