buckyonions
buckyonions is the plural of buckyonion.
Meaning of buckyonion
Noun
buckyonion (plural buckyonions)
- A concentric multishell fullerene structure.
- Detections of C60 and C70 fullerenes in planetary nebulae (PNe) of the Magellanic Clouds and of our own Galaxy have raised the idea that other forms of carbon such as hydrogenated fullerenes (fulleranes like C60H36 and C60H18), buckyonions, and carbon nanotubes, may be widespread in the Universe.2016, J. J. Díaz-Luis, D. A. García-Hernández, A. Manchado, F. Cataldo, “A search for hydrogenated fullerenes in fullerene-containing planetary nebulae”, in arXiv
Questions about buckyonions
- What is buckyonions the plural of?
- Buckyonions is the plural of buckyonion.
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