1. It is easy to see that there are 12 pentagons on the ball.

2. Composed of 4,500 LED nodes arranged along a series of pentagons and hexagons, Buckyball is animated by custom software programmed by Villareal to display over 16 million distinct colors.

3. Buckminsterfullerene is a spherical fullerene that can be described as a planar monatomic graphite layer (graphene; Section 11.2.2), consisting of regular hexagons and regular pentagons, bent into a closed sphere

4. Definition of Buckminsterfullerene : a spherical fullerene C60 that is an extremely stable form of pure carbon, consists of interconnected pentagons and hexagons suggestive of the geometry of a geodesic dome, and is believed to be a major constituent of soot Examples of Buckminsterfullerene …