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The first fullerene to be discovered was buckminsterfullerene C60 - an allotrope of carbon with 60 atoms in each molecule, arranged in a truncated icosahedron. This ball is known as a buckyball, and looks like a soccer ball.
The atomic number of Neodymium is 60, and Cobalt-60 (60Co) is a radioactive isotope of cobalt.
The electrical utility frequency in western Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and several other countries in the Americas is 60 Hz.
An exbibyte (sometimes called exabyte) is 260 bytes.
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