How to Use buckyball in a Sentence
buckyball
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Box in a box A first step is mapping where the buckyballs are located.
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Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Chemist Lai-Sheng Wang has been trying to make boron structures similar to those achieved by carbon, like the buckyball, for three decades.
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ArsTechnica,
30 June 2026
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The team also wants to know why cosmic buckyballs are emitting infrared wavelengths in a way not predicted by models of how ultraviolet radiation is absorbed.
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Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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In the new images, the nebula’s buckyballs are prominent, concentrated in the spherical shell immediately around the central dying star.
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Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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The distribution of buckyballs and other molecules in the planetary nebula will help astrophysicists decipher how these structures evolve over time and know more about what chemistry fuels the cosmos.
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Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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Cami's team was awarded more time on JWST to look at two other planetary nebulas in the fall, which also have a lot of buckyballs visible in their spectrum.
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Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Morgan Giese, a physics and astronomy PhD candidate at Western, discovered the buckyballs are mostly surrounding the white dwarf in their own shell.
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Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered 10,000 light-years into space to trace the origin of buckyballs, which are large and hollow molecules resembling a soccer ball.
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Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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