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  1. carbon nanotube, nanotubenoun

    a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape

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  1. carbon nanotubenoun

    Any nanostructure, a member of the fullerene family, having graphene layers wrapped into perfect cylinders.

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  1. carbon nanotube

    A carbon nanotube is a cylindrical molecular structure composed entirely of carbon atoms. This structure is part of the fullerene family, which also includes buckyballs, and resembles the microscopic equivalent of chicken wire. Each carbon atom is bonded to three others, forming a pattern of hexagons that make up the walls of the tube. Carbon nanotubes possess unique properties, such as high thermal conductivity, high mechanical strength, and unique electrical properties, which make them useful in fields like nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials science.

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  1. Carbon nanotube

    Carbon nanotubes are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. Nanotubes have been constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132,000,000:1, significantly larger than for any other material. These cylindrical carbon molecules have unusual properties, which are valuable for nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials science and technology. In particular, owing to their extraordinary thermal conductivity and mechanical and electrical properties, carbon nanotubes find applications as additives to various structural materials. For instance, nanotubes form a tiny portion of the material in some baseball bats, golf clubs, or car parts. Nanotubes are members of the fullerene structural family. Their name is derived from their long, hollow structure with the walls formed by one-atom-thick sheets of carbon, called graphene. These sheets are rolled at specific and discrete angles, and the combination of the rolling angle and radius decides the nanotube properties; for example, whether the individual nanotube shell is a metal or semiconductor. Nanotubes are categorized as single-walled nanotubes and multi-walled nanotubes. Individual nanotubes naturally align themselves into "ropes" held together by van der Waals forces, more specifically, pi-stacking.²³

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of carbon nanotube in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of carbon nanotube in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1


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