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6. What is Diamond often used for?

  • A conductor of heat
  • Lead in pencils
  • Drilling
  • An electrical conductor

7. Which of the following is composed entirely of interlocking tetrahedral carbon atoms?

  • Diamond
  • Nanotubes
  • Graphite
  • Amorphous carbon

8. What is an allotrope?

  • Same forms of the same element that have different uses
  • Different forms of the same element that exist in the same physical state.
  • Same forms of the same element that have a different chemical state
  • Forms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons

9. Which of the following conducts both heat and electricity?

  • Graphite
  • Nanotubes
  • Diamond
  • Fullerenes

10. What is the structure of Buckministerfullerene?

  • A spherical simple molecular structure with 60 carbon atoms and 32 sides
  • A spherical giant molecular structure with 100 carbon atoms and 42 sides
  • A nanotube with 33 carbon atoms and 60 sides
  • A spherical simple molecular structure with 50 carbon atoms and 70 sides.