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Question
Buckminsterfullerene is an allotropic form of the element:
(a) phoshorus
(b) fluorine
(c) carbon
(d) sulphur
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Solution
carbon
Buckminsterfullerene is an allotropic form of the element carbon, and contains 60 carbon atoms joined in a spherical structure.
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