footballenen.
/ˈfʊtbɔːliːn/, U.S. /ˈfʊtˌbɔlin/, /ˈfʊtˌbɑlin/ Chemistry. Now rare.
= buckminsterfullerene n.
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1985 A. D. J. Haymet in Chem. Physics Lett. 122 421/1 Recently preliminary theoretical evidence has been presented for the stable molecule ‘footballene’ constructed from 60 carbon atoms only.
1992 Jrnl. Physical Chem. 96 23/1 The NIS spectrum of footballene is shown divided into two parts.
2014 A. Djordjevic et al. in A. Tiwari & S. K. Shukla Adv. Carbon Materials & Technol. vi. 194 The most prominent member of the fullerene family is undoubtedly C60.., a perfectly symmetrical molecule that has a shape of a soccer ball, which is why the molecule has also been called ‘buckyball’ or ‘footballene’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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