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  1. Not of electricity, but it is a good conductor of heat.


  2. Diamond is non-conductor of electricity.

  3. Not at all. Diamond is a bad conductor of heat and electricity.

  4. no , diamond is not a good conductor of electricity, unlike its isotope graphite.

    this is so because diamond does not have any free electrons in its solid state( molten state of diamond does not exist) to conduct electricity.

    on the other hand, graphite has one free electron per each C atom which allows it to conduct electricity

    please refer to structures of graphite and diamond.

  5. no diamond is not a good conductor of electricity becoz it does not have any free electrons.atoms are combined tightly together in it .

  6. no diamond is not agood conductor of electricity coz the carrier of electricity is electron or electron hole,and diamond has neither.

    whereas graphite has free electrons as only 3 valencies of carbon is satisfied , so it conducts electricity although it is a non metal!

  7. NOPE!!!

    the carbon atoms in diamond are tetra hedral and therefore has no free electrons to conduct electricity ...therefore its an insulator


  8. carbon has 3 allotrophs

    1.)    graphite

    2.)    diamond

    3.)   c-60 buckminsterfullerence

    The element carbon occurs in different forms in nature with

    widely varying physical properties. Both diamond and

    graphite are formed by carbon atoms, the difference lies in

    the manner in which the carbon atoms are bonded to one

    another. In diamond, each carbon atom is bonded to four

    other carbon atoms forming a rigid three-dimensional

    structure. In graphite, each carbon atom is bonded to three

    other carbon atoms in the same plane giving a hexagonal array.

    One of these bonds is a double-bond, and thus the valency of

    carbon is satisfied. Graphite structure is formed by the

    hexagonal arrays being placed in layers one above the other.

    These two different structures result in diamond and graphite having very different

    physical properties even though their chemical properties are the same. Diamond is

    the hardest substance known while graphite is smooth and slippery. Graphite is also

    a very good conductor of electricity unlike other non-metals that you studied in the

    previous Chapter.

    Diamonds can be synthesised by subjecting pure carbon to very high pressure and

    temperature. These synthetic diamonds are small but are otherwise indistinguishable

    from natural diamonds.

    Fullerenes form another class of carbon allotropes. The first one to be identified was

    C-60 which has carbon atoms arranged in the shape of a football. Since this looked

    like the geodesic dome designed by the US architect Buckminster Fuller, the molecule

    was named fullerene.

  9. no ..not at all....diamond is bad conductor of electricity....

    bcoz it doesnt have free electrons for sharing....so it cannot make any bonds with any element.....


  10. diamond is not a good conductor. all its valence electrons are involved in the carbon carbon bonds. refer structure of diamond.  

  11. No it is not.

  12. No, Diamond is a good conductor of heat but not of electricity

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