An allotrope of carbon which exhibits only two types of C-C bond distance of 143.5 pm and 138.3 pm is

Charcoal

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Graphite

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Diamond

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Fullerene

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Solution

The correct option is D Fullerene
Fullerene is a soccer ball shaped molecule and has 60 vertices with a carbon atom at each vertex. It contains both single and double bond with C-C at a distance of 143.5 pm and 138.3 pm
whereas, in diamond C-C bond length is 154 pm and in graphite 140 pm.

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