Question

Diamond is a bad conductor because

Answer 1

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diamond is a bad conductor because every carbon in the Diamond is bonded covalent me with other three carbon atoms and they form a solid rigid like structure so no electrons is left in the diamond and because of the paucity of any free electrons in the Diamond it is a bad conductor of electricity

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Answer 2

Heres your answer:

Diamond is a poor conductor of electricity because it has no free moving electrons.

All the electrons are bound strongly in place.
They are bonded by covalent bonds which are formed by sharing of electrons and so exchage of charged particles are not involved.

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