Etymology The discoverers of the allotrope named the newfound molecule after American architect R. Buckminster Fuller, who designed many geodesic dome structures that look similar to C60 and who had died in 1983, the year before discovery. Another common name for buckminsterfullerene is "buckyballs".The AZo Journal of Materials Online. AZoM.com. "Buckminsterfullerene." 2006.
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