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Image: Eight Allotropes of Carbon

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Description: This illustration depicts eight of the allotropes (different molecular configurations) that pure carbon can take:

a) Diamond

b) Graphite

c) Lonsdaleite

d) C60 (Buckminsterfullerene) e) C540 (see Fullerene) f) C70 (see Fullerene) g) Amorphous carbon

h) single-walled carbon nanotube
Author: Andel
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