Question

Structure and composition of bucky ball

Answer 1

Answer:

Buckyballs are defined as “Compounds composed solely of an even number of carbon atoms, which form a cage-like fused-ring polycyclic system with twelve five-membered rings and the rest six-membered rings. The archetypal example is C60 fullerene, where the atoms and bonds delineate a truncated icosahedron.

Answer 2

Structure:

• Buckminsterfullerene or Bucky ball is a type of fullerene with the formula C60

• It is a carbon allotrope and has 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal faces.

• Each atom is hybridised.It has a cage-like fused-ring structure and resembles a soccer ball.

Composition:

• It is composed with 60 carbon atoms (C60) made into a ball.