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Nanotube vs Intertube - What's the difference?

nanotube | intertube |

As a noun nanotube

is shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene structure and a diameter of about 1 or 2 nanometers.

As an adjective intertube is

between or among tubes or nanotubes.

nanotube

English

(carbon nanotube)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chemistry) Shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene structure and a diameter of about 1 or 2 nanometers.
  • any nanotech tubular structure with a characteristic diameter measured in a few nanometres, such as titanium nanotubes

    • Synonyms

    (carbon molecule) * buckytube * carbon nanotube

    See also

    * nanotechnology

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    intertube

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    Adjective

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  • Between or among tubes or nanotubes.
  • * 2001 , Young-Gui Yoon and Steven G. Louie, “Electronic Structure and Quantum Conductance of Carbon Nanotubes”, in Giorgio Benedek et al. (editors), Nanostructured Carbon for Advanced Applications , Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7923-7042-0, page 242:
    • If the intertube interactions are negligibly small, the electronic band structure along any line in the Brillouin zone parallel to the rope axis would be exactly the same as that of an isolated tube.

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