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What is the property of buckminsterfullerene?

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Buckminsterfullerene 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 twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons. Each carbon atom has three bonds.

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