HORTICULTURE

HORTICULTURE SCIENCE

APPLICATION OF NANO TECHNOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How many hexagons does a buckyball have?
A
12
B
10
C
20
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-4: -If we do this in a symmetric fashion at all the vertices, we obtain the buckyball. It has thirty two faces (twelve pentagons and twenty hexagons), ninety edges and sixty vertices, 32 − 90 + 60 = 2 .

Detailed explanation-5: -Buckminster fullerene or Buckyball is a spherical shaped allotrope of carbon. It has formula C60 and have a cage like fused ring structure which resembles a soccer ball, made of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. Each atom is sp2 hybridized and bonded to three other atoms.

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