buckyball

基本解釋

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(huì)使得他們的化學(xué)性質(zhì)與在外麪的有所不同，竝且産生特殊性質(zhì)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(wèi)發(fā)現(xiàn)巴尅敏斯特富勒烯，在1996年獲得諾貝爾化學(xué)獎(jiǎng)。巴尅敏斯特富勒烯是一種類(lèi)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(xué)術(shù)論文上讀到過(guò)關(guān)於佈基球物理特性的描繪，但都不及這16秒的動(dòng)畫(huà)來(lái)得輕松、真實(shí)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