Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Tricarbon (systematically named 1λ23λ2-propadiene and μ-carbidodicarbon) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula C2(μ-C) (also written [C(μ-C)C] or C3). It is a colourless gas that only persists in dilution or solution as an adduct. It is one of the simplest unsaturated carbenes.It is a small carbon cluster first spectroscopically observed in the beginning 20th century in the tail of a comet by William Huggins and subsequently identified in stellar atmospheres.
