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Question
One of the following is not an allotrope of carbon. This is:
(a) diamond
(b) graphite
(c) cumene
(d) buckministerfullerene
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Solution
cumene
Cumene is not an allotrope of carbon. Allotropes of carbon are diamond, graphite and buckministerfullerene.
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