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Grade 12th pass10 grade science

Buckminster fullerene is an allotropic form of [NCERT Exemplar] (a) phosphorus (b) sulphur (c) carbon (d) tin

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(c) Buckminster fullerene is an allotrope of carbon containing clusters of 60 carbon atoms joined together to form spherical molecules. Its formula isC60 (C-sixty). It is a dark solid at room temperature and as compared to another allotropic form of carbon (diamond and graphite), it is neither very hard nor soft.