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From Buckminster + Fuller + -ene, named after Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
buckminsterfullerene
buck·mins·ter·full·er·eneToday it means: An allotrope of carbon with the formula C₆₀, consisting of a hollow molecule with 60 atoms arranged in a truncated icosahedron structure; the smallest of the fullerenes. Full definition →