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KROTO
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• KROTO (noun)
The noun KROTO has 1 sense:
1. British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
Familiarity information: KROTO used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Harold Kroto; Harold W. Kroto; Kroto; Sir Harold Walter Kroto
Instance hypernyms:
chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)
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