Boron and Carbon FamilyMedium
Question
Graphite is a soft solid lubricant extremely difficult to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that graphite
Options
A.is an allotropic form of diamond
B.has molecules of variable molecular masses like polymers
C.has carbon atoms arranged in large plates of rings of strongly bound carbon atoms with weak interplate bonds
D.is a non-crystalline substance
More Boron and Carbon Family Questions
Carbon can not be used to produce magnesium by chemical reduction of MgO because...Boric acid...The correct statements from the following are :(A) Ionic radii of trivalent cations of group 13 elements decreases down ...Boron cannot form which one of the following anions ?...In which of the following species is the underlined carbon having sp3 hybridisation?...