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Highly variable concentrations of natural C60 are reported from several coals from mines in the Yunnan-Guizhou provinces and the Inner Mongolia-Shanxi- Xinjiang provinces of China. The fullerene-extraction procedures from coals and C60 identification by Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy are described.
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Fang, P.H. et al. (2006). Fullerene in Some Coal Deposits in China. In: Natural Fullerenes and Related Structures of Elemental Carbon. Developments in Fullerene Science, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4135-7_12
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