Science : Ch 04 – Carbon and its Compounds

Buckminsterfullerene is an allotrope of carbon with ǩ0 carbon atoms, which are arranged in the shape of a football. Since this also looks like the geodesic dome designed by the US architect Buckminster Fuller

Buckminsterfullerene is a molecule of carbon in the form of a hollow sphere consisting of 60 C-atoms and is having the formula C₆₀.

Carboxylic acids are compounds which contain a group also known as carboxyl group.

Pencil lead is formed of graphite. Graphite is an allotropic form of carbon in which each carbon atom is joined to three others, forming layers

Catenation is the property of self-linking of an element by which an atom combines with the other atoms of the same element to form long chains

As the compound, CH₃CH₂CH=CH₂ contains four carbon atoms and a double bond attached to the first carbon, so the I.U.P.A.C name of CH₃CH₂CH=CH₂ is But-1-ene.