Why is diamond not considered to be a molecule even though it has covalent bonds? Reply asap
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Well, diamond is a covalent crystal, so it's made up "only" (I use the quotes as perfect crystals are really rare and most of the crystals we get in touch with are actually full of imperfection, e.g. different atoms in the structure which sometimesgive the compund a characteristic aspect, such as the color in some kinds of diamonds) of C atoms linked with covalent bonds.So obviously we can think at it like a "giant molecule", even if it's more correct to consider it a crystal (also because we could only write Cn forits formula, as there are no fixed edeges for the atoms that can link together).
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