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- noun Plural form of
buckytube .
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Examples
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Both it and its descendants, so-called buckytubes, which are cylindrical molecules made of pure carbon, are still much admired, but they have not yet lived up to their promise.
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Buckyjunk refers to future, difficult-to-recycle consumer waste made of carbon nanotubes (aka buckytubes, based on buckyballs or buckminsterfullerene).
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Carbon nanotubes (aka: "buckytubes") are an allotrope of a carbon molecule which have cylindrical nanostructures.
EzineArticles 2010
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Carbon nanotubes are sometimes called "buckytubes" because their ends, when closed, take the form of soccer ball-shaped carbon-60 molecules known as buckminsterfullerines, or
Media Newswire 2009
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Carbon nanotubes are sometimes called "buckytubes" because their ends, when closed, take the form of soccer ball-shaped carbon-60 molecules known as buckminsterfullerines, or
Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2009
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But it also led to the discovery of the nanotubes or the buckytubes.
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But it also led to the discovery of the nanotubes or the buckytubes.
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All that suggests that someday buckytubes may be the "nanofingers" used to control teenyweeny devices; their conductivity also means they may become molecular wires, leading to a new generation of computers.
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No one knew about buckyballs or buckytubes until he came along.
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Even so, buckytubes represent a far cry from the self-replicating assemblers necessary in Drexlerland.
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