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what is buckminsterfullerene​

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Answered by Anonymous
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it is football shape structure made up of carbon

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Answered by dhruvsh
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Buckminsterfullerene , Indeed one of the most famous allotrope of Carbon discovered in the mid 20th century.
This compound also abbreviated as C-60 has almost a shape like a football, to be more specific, a geodosic dome.

This compound made by a lot of carbon atoms is actually , made of shapes like pentagons and hexagons.
C-60 is just exactly like what your football looks like.
Every carbon atom in this compound has a hybridization of sp3, which is each carbon having a tetrahedral geometry, and thus easily able to give the whole compound a nearly spherical skeleton.
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