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Fullerene is an allotrope of carbon that contains ______ carbon atoms.

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a

20

b

30

c

60

d

25

answer is C.

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Fullerene is an allotrope of carbon that contains 60 carbon atoms. Since this looked like the geodesic dome designed by the US architect Buckminster Fuller, the molecule was named fullerene. Also, in fullerene, carbon atoms are arranged in the shape of a football. 

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