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lavoisier classified carbon compound based on their source

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D)Richard Smalley classified carbon compounds based on their source

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• Berzelius is best known for his system of electrochemical dualism.
• Antoine Lavoisier grouped the elements based on their properties into gases, non-metals, metals and earths.
• In 1797, the English chemist Smithson Tennant proved that diamond is pure carbon.
• In 1985, Robert Curl, Harry Kroto and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes, a new form of carbon in which the atoms are arranged in soccer-ball shapes.