Graphite is a soft solid lubricant extremely difficult to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that, graphite
is a non-crystalline substance
is an allotropic form of diamond
has molecules of variable molecular masses like polymers
has carbon atoms arranged in large plates of rings of strongly bound carbon atoms with weak interplate bonds
The structure of diborane (B2H6) contains
four 2C-2e- bonds and four 3C-2e- bonds
two 2C-2e- bonds and two 3C-3e- bonds
two 2C-2e- bonds and four 3C-2e- bonds
four 2C-2e- bonds and two 3C-2e- bonds
Buckminster fullerene is :
pure graphite
C-60
diamond
C-90
B.
C-60
C-60 is called Buckminster fullerene. It is discovered in 1990 as a constituent of soot. Its shape is like a soccer ball.
In silica (SiO2), each silicon atom is bonded to
two oxygen atoms
four oxygen atoms
one silicon and two oxygen atoms
one silicon and four oxygen atoms