Molecules of fullerenes are found in the form of buckyballs and Bucky tubes. true or false
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The closed fullerenes, especially C60, are also informally called buckyballs for their resemblance to the standard ball of association football ("soccer"). Nested closed fullerenes have been named bucky onions. Cylindrical fullerenes are also called carbon nanotubes or buckytubes.
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What is the difference between fullerene and buckyball?
is that fullerene is (inorganic chemistry) any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules whose atoms lie at the vertices of a polyhedron having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal faces while buckminsterfullerene is an allotrope of carbon having a hollow molecule consisting of 60 atoms arranged in 12
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