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And Diamond A But: Coke Wood

There are three crystalline allotropes of carbon: diamond, graphite, and fullerene. Diamond and graphite are familiar allotropes that have been known for some time, while fullerene was only discovered in 1985. Each allotrope has a unique crystal structure due to the different arrangements of carbon atoms. Diamond has a tetrahedral crystal structure where each carbon atom is bonded to four other carbons, making it very hard and chemically inert.

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And Diamond A But: Coke Wood

There are three crystalline allotropes of carbon: diamond, graphite, and fullerene. Diamond and graphite are familiar allotropes that have been known for some time, while fullerene was only discovered in 1985. Each allotrope has a unique crystal structure due to the different arrangements of carbon atoms. Diamond has a tetrahedral crystal structure where each carbon atom is bonded to four other carbons, making it very hard and chemically inert.

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Diamond Graphite Fullerene


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There are three crystalline
allotropesof carbon.
These are diamond, graphite and fullerene.
and graphite are familiar Diamond
allotropes of carbon but fullerene is a
recently (1985)discovered
of carbon. Each one of allotrope
diamond, graphite and fullerene is of
atoms are aranged in different composed
ways in each allotrope of carbon.
carbon atoms. But the C
carbon have different Therefore, the three allotropes of
crystal structures.

4.2 Study of Diamond


Diamond is a beautiful
crystalline
allotrope'of carbon. Its atomic
has been taken from
Greek words symbol isC. The name
diaphanes (which means 'diamond
indomistable or
invincible)with reference to transparent) and adamas
421 its extreme (which means
Structure of Diamond hardness.
In a crystal of
diamond, each carbon atom
is bonded
very strongly to four
other carbon
manner. The atoms in
tetrahedron
valency of each carbon
satisfied in diamond
atom is 1.544
and there is no completely
free telectron. Tetrahedral un
arrangement of C -atoms This Carbon
makes diamond very
unreactive and bad atom
conductor of hard,
depicts a electricity.
Following figure
portion of the
diamond
are crystal. Smaller
representing C-atoms. circles

Diamond strustur

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