Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carbon nanotube

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: car-bon -nan-otube
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Inflected Forms

carbon nanotubes (plural)

Derived Forms

CNRP CNT CNTRP

Phrases

carbon nanotube reinforced plastic carbon nanotube reinforced polymer

Synonyms

buckytube CNT nanotube

Questions

What does carbon nanotube mean?: Any nanostructure, a member of the fullerene family, having graphene layers wrapped into perfect cylinders.

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