The Fullerenes || FULLERITES: NEW FORMS
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KRÄTSCHMER, WOLFGANG
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier
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English
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Until recently, the element carbon was believed to exhibit only two main allotropic forms, diamond and graphite. Research in the US and Europe has now confirmed the existence of a third previously unknown form - buckminsterfullerene (C60) and its relatives, the fullerenes (C24, C28, C32, C70 etc).