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Title: Buckminster Fullerene: geometric shape?
Post by: topoelpibe21 on May 5, 2013
NO this is not my homework, I am in 8th grade and actually learned about Buckminster Fullerene through reading a book, "Designing the Molecular World",  by Philip Ball. Here are the answers:

Either A: Truncated Dodecahedron
B: Truncated Icosahedron
C: Geometric Spheroid
Or D: Tetracendron

If no one gets it right, whoever posted first gets it...


Title: Buckminster Fullerene: geometric shape?
Post by: topdog54235 on May 5, 2013
C: Geometric Spheroid


Title: Buckminster Fullerene: geometric shape?
Post by: num on May 5, 2013
It is B, C60 has the shape of a soccer ball, or more accurately, the shape of a dome the architect and philosopher Buckminster designed