FULLERENE STRUCTURES

C60

  

C70

If you click with the right mouse button on the structures you can change and mulipulate the models how you wish.  These two structures are the most common of  the family of fullerenes, but there are many more.  These two structures are shown more simply below.

It can be seen that the difference between C60 and C70 is that C70 has an extra ring of hexagons running through the middle of it.

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