Question

Write in detail about following allotropes of carbon that includes structure, properties and uses. Draw well

labelled diagrams for each.

a) Diamond

b) Graphite

c) Buckminsterfullerene​

Answer 1

Answer:

Adenosine triphosphate

Answer 2

a) Diamond

Carbon has an electronic arrangement of 2,4. In diamond, each carbon shares electrons with four other carbon atoms - forming four single bonds.

In the diagram some carbon atoms only seem to be forming two bonds (or even one bond), but that's not really the case. We are only showing a small bit of the whole structure. This is a giant covalent structure - it continues on and on in three dimensions. It is not a molecule, because the number of atoms joined up in a real diamond is completely variable - depending on the size of the crystal.