Definition of "buckytube" [buckytube]

• A nanotube (noun)

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• "An elongated chemical cousin called the buckytube is also showing great promise."
• "These previously unknown soccer-ball-shaped molecules of 60 carbon atoms, and their "buckytube" cousins, promise to revolutionize materials science, producing structures 100 times stronger than steel but with only one sixth the weight."