carbon nanotube

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   a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape

   Synonymsnanotube

   Broaderfullerene

Questions about carbon nanotube

What does carbon nanotube mean?

carbon nanotube means "a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape".

What is another word for carbon nanotube?

Close synonyms include nanotube. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbon nanotube a common word?

carbon nanotube is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.