Gas carbon is not a gas. It deposits on the walls of retort when a hydrocarbon is heated in it in the absence of air Pankaj Singh
In that case too it is not an allotrope of carbon.
coal, diamond and graphite are allotropes of carbon.
Kalyani was heating an ore X of Zinc in absence of air. She observed that a gas Y is evolved in this process. When she passed the gas through a solution of slaked lime, it turned milky. The ore X and gas Y are-