Carbon is the sixth element in the periodic table, and forms about two-tenths of one percent of Earth's crust.
Smut is carbon atoms that are poorly linked.
Graphite is carbon atoms neatly linked in flat sheets. Today, however, humanity rejoices in possession of a fourth and historically unprecedented form of carbon. They were named in August 1985, in Houston, Texas, in honor of the American engineer, inventor, and delphically visionary philosopher, R. Buckminster Fuller. It's very round, the roundest molecule known to science. A free buckyball rotates merrily through space at one hundred million revolutions per second.