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.
将极性分子放在足球烯中会使得他们的化学性质与在外面的有所不同，并且产生特殊性质的新分子。
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 因为发现巴克敏斯特富勒烯，在1996年获得诺贝尔化学奖。巴克敏斯特富勒烯是一种类似足球形状的碳，人们更喜欢叫它巴克球。
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.
读者们可能在一些学术论文上读到过关于布基球物理特性的描绘，但都不及这16秒的动画来得轻松、真实和彻底。

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