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buck·min·sterful·le·rene \¦bəkˌminstərˌfu̇ləˈrēn\ noun Etymology: R. Buckminster Fuller died 1983 American engineer + English -ene; from the resemblance of its molecules to the geodesic domes designed by Fuller : a spherical fullerene C60 that is an extremely stable form of pure carbon, consists of interconnected pentagons and hexagons suggestive of the geometry of a geodesic dome, and is believed to be a major constituent of soot |