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COMEDK · Chemistry · 13. General Organic Chemistry

Graphite is a soft solid lubricant extremely difficult to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that, graphite

  1. A has molecules of variable molecular masses like polymers.
  2. B has carbon atoms arranged in large plates of rings of strongly bound carbon atoms with weak interplate bonds.
  3. C is a non-crystalline substance.
  4. D is an allotropic form of carbon.
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(B) has carbon atoms arranged in large plates of rings of strongly bound carbon atoms with weak interplate bonds.

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Graphite is a soft solid lubricant extremely difficult to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that graphite has carbon atoms arranged in large plates of rings of stmmgly hound carbon atoms with weak interplate bonds.