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Question
The number of carbon atoms joined in a spherical molecule of buckminsterfullerene is:
(a) fifty
(b) sixty
(c) seventy
(d) ninety
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Solution
sixty
The number of carbon atoms joined in a spherical molecule of buckminsterfullerene is 60.
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