Which of the following is not a characteristic of fullerenes?

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The C-60 allotrope is the most stable of all the fullerene.

It contains only fused six-membered carbon-carbon rings.

Its hardness is lower than that of a diamond and a bad conductor as electrons cannot jump between molecules.

Its shape is similar to that of a soccer ball containing both saturated and unsaturated bonds.

answer is D.

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Fullerene is an allotrope of carbon that resembles the shaper of a soccer ball and may contain five to seven-membered rings. Fullerene contains both single and double bonds.

. As it contains delocalized electrons, no free electrons are available, so it is a poor conductor of electricity.

It does not have a network structure like diamond, so it is softer than diamond.

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