Definition of Kroto

1. Noun. British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939).

Exact synonyms: Harold Kroto, Harold W. Kroto, Sir Harold Walter Kroto
Generic synonyms: Chemist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kroto

Krogh spirometer
Kromayer
Kromayer's lamp
Kronecker
Kronecker's stain
Kronecker delta
Kronecker product
Kronig
Kronig's isthmus
Kronig's steps
Kronlein
Kronlein's hernia
Kronlein operation
Kronos
Kropotkin
Kroto
Krueger instrument stop
Kruegeresque
Kruger
Krugerrand
Krugerrands
Krukenberg's amputation
Krukenberg's spindle
Krukenberg's tumour
Krukenberg's veins
Krum
Krung Thep
Krungthep
Krupp
Krupp gun

Literary usage of Kroto

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"The army therefore marched to the kroto- the shore ; they bivouacked at the river's mouth, and again tory. embarked. They touched at each town on their way ..."

2. Riches of the Forest: Food, Spices, Crafts and Resins of Asia by Citlalli López Binnqüist, Patricia Shanley (2004)
"... Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius kroto, ant larvae and pupae Indonesian case by Nicolas ... kroto ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Turning now to the complexed acetylene, if the metal is taken to lie in the xz plane, the combined <r and (9) HW kroto and DP Santry, Л Chem. ..."

4. The Conquest of Mount McKinley: The Story of Three Expeditions Through the by Belmore Browne (1913)
"Night began to close in on us as we neared kroto, and we debated the question as to whether we would invite ourselves into some Indian's cabin or pitch our ..."

5. Reports by Alaskan Engineering Commission (1916)
"A crossing of the Susitna River near the mouth of kroto Creek will throw the point of economical junction with the Susitna-Tanana route about 5i miles south ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"... silver in the renal pelvis without overdistention could cause necrosis in the renal parenchyma. This observation was later corroborated by kroto- ..."

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