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Buckminster fullerene, which looks like a football, is an allotropic form of

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Buckminster fullerene, which looks like a football, is an allotropic form of Carbon.

Allotropes are different structural modifications of an element. Carbon exists in several allotropic forms, including diamond, graphite, graphene, and fullerenes. Buckminster fullerene, also known as C60, is the most well-known fullerene molecule, consisting of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a spherical structure resembling a soccer ball (truncated icosahedron).

Fullerenes were discovered in 1985 by Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, and Richard Smalley, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for their work. Other allotropes of carbon like diamond and graphite are well-known for their distinct physical properties arising from different atomic arrangements. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Tin also have allotropes, but fullerenes are specific to Carbon.

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