Bucky Ball Volume

[Atomic_Sheep]

Does anyone have any idea of what the volume of C60 bucky ball is?

[Strange]

I suppose it depends how you define volume (this is not necessarily well-defined for an atom or molecule). One common concept is the van der Waals volume which looks to be about 0.5 x 10^-27 m³

(Based on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene#Molecule)

[Atomic_Sheep]

Also, does anyone know if the distance between the carbon atoms in a C60 molecule are all exactly the same distance apart or do they vary (since there's pentagons and hexagons in its structure)?

[John Cuthber]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17742230

[Atomic_Sheep]

Thanks