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• n  a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene

• The first known encounter with a buckyball was recorded in 1985 by Richard Smalley, a chemical physicist at Rice University, and Harold Kroto, a British chemist from the University .
• In essence, a buckyball forms a cage that begs to be filled.
• C-Sixty is assembling libraries of new buckyball-based molecules that it will test for potential therapeutic value.

• buckminsterfullerene

News & Articles

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• Buckyballs Founder Sued by CPSC Over Recall
  The man behind the popular Buckyballs desk toy is being sued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission over a costly recall.
  Jan. 8, 2014 - FindLaw

Quotes

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• Harold Kroto in Register
  If FIFA had stuck with the Buckyball-shaped football the England team would probably now have had three points in the bag,Professor Sir Harry Kroto told the Royal Chemistry Society.