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Diamonds, Charcoal, and the graphite that makes your pencil write (its not really lead) are all made totally of carbon. EXPLAIN how this one element could create 3 completely different substances.
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Diamonds, Charcoal, and the graphite that makes your pencil write (its not really lead) are all made totally of carbon. EXPLAIN how this one element could create 3 completely different substances.

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Carbon is capable of forming many allotropes (structurally different forms of the same element) due to its valency

Graphite and Diamond are different because they have different structures. ... However each carbon atom in Diamond has 4 covalent bonds with other Carbons, making it extremely strong and hard. On the other hand, each carbon in graphite is bonded to three carbons, and therefore graphite is formed in layers.

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