HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
APPLICATION OF NANO TECHNOLOGY
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8 This past weekend, British chemist Sir Harry Kroto passed away at the age of 76. He is the co-discoverer of buckyballs, a form of carbon that is made up of 60 atoms and shaped like “a hollow soccer ball.” The discovery won Kroto and his team the Noble Prize in chemistry.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C60. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure (truncated icosahedron) made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, and resembles a soccer ball.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fullerenes (MPI-FKF) C60 is a molecule that consists of 60 carbon atoms, arranged as 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons. The shape is the same as that of a soccer ball: The black pieces of leather are the pentagons, the hexagons are white. There are 60 different points where three of the leather patches meet.
Detailed explanation-3: -Buckminsterfullerene (C60) has sixty carbon atoms in its molecule. It has carbon atoms arranged in the shapes of twenty hexagonal and twelve pentagonal rings.
Detailed explanation-4: -It has thirty two faces (twelve pentagons and twenty hexagons), ninety edges and sixty vertices, 32 − 90 + 60 = 2 . (Picture of the Buckyball here).
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