Name the element whose one of the allotropic forms is buckminsterfullerene.
Carbon has buckminsterfullerene as one of its allotropes. The other allotropic form of Carbon is diamond and graphite.
Diamond: It is an extremely hard, transparent crystal, with carbon atoms arranged in a tetrahedral lattice. This allotrope of carbon is a poor electrical conductor and an excellent thermal conductor.
Graphite: It is a soft, black, flaky solid, a moderate electrical conductor. The C atoms are bonded in flat hexagonal lattices (graphene), which are then layered in sheets.
Buckminster fullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C−60. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure that resembles a soccer ball, made of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons (60 vertices and 32 faces), with a carbon atom at each vertex of each polygon and a bond along each polygon edge. Each atom is sp2 hybridised and bonded to three other atoms.
Carbon has buckminsterfullerene as one of its allotropes. The other allotropic form of Carbon is diamond and graphite.
Diamond: It is an extremely hard, transparent crystal, with carbon atoms arranged in a tetrahedral lattice. This allotrope of carbon is a poor electrical conductor and an excellent thermal conductor.
Graphite: It is a soft, black, flaky solid, a moderate electrical conductor. The C atoms are bonded in flat hexagonal lattices (graphene), which are then layered in sheets.
Buckminster fullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C−60. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure that resembles a soccer ball, made of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons (60 vertices and 32 faces), with a carbon atom at each vertex of each polygon and a bond along each polygon edge. Each atom is sp2 hybridised and bonded to three other atoms.
