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soldier1979 [14.2K]
3 years ago
6

Why is buckminsterfullerene an allotrope of carbon

Chemistry
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sweet-ann [11.9K]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

Buckminsterfullerence is called an allotrope of carbon because it was discovered during an experiment involving a cluster of beam which uses laser to vapourise  a graphite rod in a helium atmosphere to produce carbon plasmas.a mass sectrometry evidence from the experiment showed that carbon molecules with C60 were forming with a spheroidal geometry.so therefore it was included as an allotrope of carbon.

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