Question

Carbon 60 contains __________ pentagons and __________ hexagons.

• A. $20,12$
• B. $12,20$
• C. $30,30$
• D. $24,36$

Answer 1

The correct option is B $12,20$

Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula $C_{60}$. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure that resembles a football, made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, with a carbon atom at each vertex of each polygon and a bond along each polygon edge.

The answer option is B.