Quiz: Buckyballs

1

A buckyball is a hollow sphere of carbon molecules.
- True
- False
2

Buckyballs were named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, an American architect who invented the geodesic dome.
- True
- False
3

Buckyballs can form naturally from lightning strikes.
- True
- False
4

Oblong-shaped buckyballs are called fullerenes; hollow fibers are called carbon nanotubes.
- True
- False
5

Fullerenes have been shown to cause brain damage in fish and carbon nanotubes behave similarly to asbestos.
- True
- False

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