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Science Bowl Question

📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 6#️⃣ Question 3 TOSS UP📝 Multiple Choice

Researchers in the Surendranath group at MIT are researching methods to reduce the carbon footprint of producing phosphorous. Which of the following allotropes of phosphorous were they producing, whose molecules are individual unlinked tetrahedra of phosphorous atoms?

W) Red phosphorous
X) Black phosphorous
Y) Violet phosphorous
Z) White phosphorous
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