Elemental carbon appears in many structural forms or allotropes. Three of these forms are crystalline-diamond, I graphite and the recently discovered fullerene (bucky ball) - while more than 40 others including coke and carbon black are amorphous. Now there seems to be set a fourth crystalline allotrope of carbon, reported in 1995 by Rich and Lagow at the University of Texas. In bucky ball each atom is:
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`sp^2` - hybridised element with extensive delocalised molecular orbital
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`sp^2`- hybridised element with localised molecular orbital
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`sp^3`- hybridised element with delocalised molecualr orbital
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`sp^3`- hybridised element with localised molecular orbital.
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`sp^2` - hybridised element with extensive delocalised molecular orbital
