Definition of buckytube in English:
buckytube
noun ˈbʌkɪtjuːbˈbəkēˌt(y)o͞ob
Chemistry buckytubes, they discovered, are stronger than steel, carbon fibres, and even diamonds
another term for nanotube
Example sentencesExamples
- Sometimes called ‘buckytubes,’ carbon nanotubes' properties were first studied by Japanese researchers in the early 1990s.
- The buckytube was accidentally discovered in the resultant soot left behind from an electrical discharge between two carbon electrodes.
- Another technology that the author has been promoting for a long time is what he calls ‘buckytubes,’ but is better known as carbon nanotubes.
- His impact shroud wouldn't do him much good, even if it is made of woven buckytubes.
- Buckytubes self-assemble into ‘ropes’ of tens to hundreds of aligned tubes, running side by side, branching and recombining.
Origin
1990s: blend of buckminsterfullerene and tube.