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  • 1Fullerene — Buckminsterfullerene C60 (left) and carbon nanotubes (right) are two examples of structures in the fullerene family …

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  • 2Oignon de carbone — Oignon de fullerène à deux couches C20@C80. Le fullerène C20 est montré en jaune à l intérieur du fullerène C80 en gris. Les oignons de carbone sont des nanoparticules de carbone con …

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  • 3crystal — crystallike, adj. /kris tl/, n., adj., v., crystaled, crystaling or (esp. Brit.) crystalled, crystalling. n. 1. a clear, transparent mineral or glass resembling ice. 2. the transparent form of crystallized quartz. 3. Chem., Mineral. a solid body… …

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  • 4Crystal — /kris tl/, n. 1. a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis. 25,543. 2. a female given name. * * * I Any solid material whose atoms are arranged in a definite pattern and whose surface regularity reflects its internal symmetry. Each of a crystal s… …

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  • 5cluster — clusteringly, adv. clustery, adj. /klus teuhr/, n. 1. a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes. 2. a group of things or persons close together: There was a cluster of tourists at the gate. 3. U.S …

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  • 6Hückel's rule — In organic chemistry, Hückel s rule estimates whether a planar ring molecule will have aromatic properties. The quantum mechanical basis for its formulation was first worked out by physical chemist Erich Hückel in 1931. It was first expressed… …

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  • 7Cluster chemistry — In chemistry, a cluster is an ensemble of bound atoms intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid. Clusters exist of diverse stoichiometries and nuclearities. For example, carbon and boron atoms form fullerene and borane clusters,… …

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  • 8Carborane — Ball and stick model of o carborane …

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  • 9Regular polyhedron — A regular polyhedron is a polyhedron whose faces are congruent (all alike) regular polygons which are assembled in the same way around each vertex. A regular polyhedron is highly symmetrical, being all of edge transitive, vertex transitive and… …

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  • 10Truncated rhombic triacontahedron — The truncated rhombic triacontahedron is a convex polyhedron constructed from the rhombic triacontahedron by truncating the twelve vertices where five faces meet at their acute corners.The 12 vertices can be truncated such that all edges are… …

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