Buckminsterfullerene is an allotropic form of

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Buckminsterfullerene is an allotropic form of carbon.
Carbon exists in different allotropic forms. The two forms are crystalline and amorphous form. Fullerenes are allotropes of carbon discovered by the action of a laser beam on the vapours of graphite. In a fullerene, molecular carbon is connected by single and double bonds so that they form a partially closed or closed mesh-like structure with fused rings of five to seven atoms. The Buckminsterfullerene (

C_{60}

) is one of the allotropes of carbon. It is structure is like a shape of a cage due to which it looks like a football. The structure of Buckminsterfullerene is,
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