HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
APPLICATION OF NANO TECHNOLOGY
Question
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How many hexagons does a buckyball have?
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12
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10
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20
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None of the above
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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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