Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the argument?
A. Confirming that the shungite genuinely contained fullerenes took careful experimentation.
B. Some fullerenes have also been found on the remains of a small meteorite that collided with a spacecraft.
C. The mineral shungite itself contains large amounts of carbon, from which the fullerenes apparently formed.
D. The naturally occurring fullerenes are arranged in a previously unknown crystalline structure.
E. Shungite itself is formed only under distinctive conditions.
ANS:D
The hidden assumption:
The naturally occurring fullerenes are the same as those formed in the lab.
Based on the assumption, by comparing with the fullerenes produced in lab, we can know the conditions when the naturally occurring fullerenes are formed.
However if the two fullerenes are different, then the conclusion of the argument cannot hold.
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