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.

noun. an allotrope of carbon having a hollow molecule consisting of 60 atoms arranged in 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal faces to form a truncated icosahedron; the smallest of the fullerenes

noun. a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene

"To understand how the carbon atoms in buckminsterfullerene are connected to each other, we need only recall the pattern on the surface of a soccer ball, or European football."

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