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What makes diamonds so strong and graphite so brittle and breakable?
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∙ 7y ago
It is the structure of the combination of carbon atoms.
In diamond , each carbon atom combines tetrahedrally with dour adjacent carbons atoms. This gives it a very hard and rigid structure.
In graphite each carbon atom combines hexagonally with three adjacent carbon atoms , leaving a 'free' electron in uncombined form . This gives graphite a softer structure, which can slide over each other as sheets of carbon atoms.
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