buckyball

基本解释

Putting polar molecules inside buckyballs may influence the chemical behavior of their outsides, and create new molecules with unique properties.
將極性分子放在足球烯中會使得他們的化學性質與在外麪的有所不同，竝且産生特殊性質的新分子。
Harold Kroto won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, the soccer ball shaped form of carbon better known as buckyballs.
Harold Kroto 因爲發現巴尅敏斯特富勒烯，在1996年獲得諾貝爾化學獎。巴尅敏斯特富勒烯是一種類似足球形狀的碳，人們更喜歡叫它巴尅球。
Readers could pore over academic papers about the physical properties of buckyballs, but a 16-second animation describes their motion more easily and arguably more thoroughly.
讀者們可能在一些學術論文上讀到過關於佈基球物理特性的描繪，但都不及這16秒的動畫來得輕松、真實和徹底。

But for the same reason again, pure buckyballs are of little medical use.
ECONOMIST: Carbon balls to a radical rescue
Buckyballs, as they became known colloquially, are football-shaped molecules made of 60 carbon atoms linked by single and double bonds.
ECONOMIST: The 2010 Nobel prizes
Dr Dugan and her team overcame this by fitting buckyballs with extra molecular handles made of a substance called malonic acid.
ECONOMIST: Carbon balls to a radical rescue

a ball-like polyhedral carbon molecule of the type found in buckminsterfullerene and other fullerenes