The truncated regular Icosahedron or again the spherical Fullerene Molecule containing 60 Carbon atoms [L'icosaèdre régulier tronqué ou encore la molécule sphérique de fullerène contenant 60 atomes de carbone ]

The truncated regular Icosahedron or again the spherical Fullerene Molecule containing 60 Carbon atoms [L'icosaèdre régulier tronqué ou encore la molécule sphérique de fullerène contenant 60 atomes de carbone].




The spherical Fullerene molecule (made of 60 Carbon atoms) contains 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons.

It is a so-called truncated regular icosahedron constructed by truncating The process of truncation of the regular Icosahedron all of the 12 regular icosahedron The regular Icosahedron, one of the 5 Platonic Solids 's vertices.

Please note that the color palette is arbitrary and without any scientific meaning.


See some related pictures:

The truncated regular Icosahedron or again the spherical Fullerene Molecule containing 60 Carbon atoms Untitled 0673

See a 'distorded' regular Icosahedron:

Untitled 0674

See an 'extended' regular Icosahedron:

An 'extended' truncated regular Icosahedron


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