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The number of carbon atoms joined in a spherical molecule of buckminsterfullerene is:
The number of carbon atoms joined in a spherical molecule of buckminsterfullerene is:
Carbon and its Compounds | CBSE | Chemistry | Class 10 | Exercise 1 | Lakhmir Singh
The number of carbon atoms joined in a spherical molecule of buckminsterfullerene is:

(a) Fifty

(b) Sixty

(c) Seventy

(d) Ninety

Solution:

Option (b) is the answer.

Buckminsterfullerene has the formula C60 and is a kind of fullerene. It is made up of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons and has a cage-like fused-ring structure (truncated icosahedron) that resembles a soccer ball. There are three bonds between each carbon atom.

Buckminsterfullerene.
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