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Crystalline form of carnbon having 60 carbon atoms joined together is:
Crystalline form of carnbon having 60 carbon atoms joined together is:
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The correct option is C - buckminster Fullerene
A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon in the form of 60 a hollow sphere of carbon called as Buckminster fullerene.
It has a cage-like fused-ring structure that resembles a soccer ball, made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, with a carbon atom which has one π bond and two σ bonds at each corner of the shape to create a universal vertex.
- buckminster Fullerene
A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon in the form of 60 a hollow sphere of carbon called as Buckminster fullerene.
It has a cage-like fused-ring structure that resembles a soccer ball, made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, with a carbon atom which has one π bond and two σ bonds at each corner of the shape to create a universal vertex.
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