The carbon molecule known as a buckyball, a member of the fullerene family, can act as a cage for a variety of other chemicals.

一种称作足球烯的碳分子，它是富勒家族中的一员，可以像笼子一样困住别的化学分子。

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You can't separate a single water molecule from its fellows with a tiny pair of tweezers, so isolating it in a carbon cage may reveal new secrets about the intrinsic nature of a lone H2O.

你不可能通过一把小镊子把单个水分子从它的同伴中分离，因此利用一个“碳分子笼”将单个水分子隔离可能会揭示出单h2o分子的本质秘密。

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