STUDENT STUDY GUIDE FOR 8TH GRADE CHEMISTRY

Since graphite has free electrons, it is a good conductor of electricity. Diamond, on the other hand, does not conduct electricity. Carbon forms a cage structure in buckey balls (short for buckmeisterfullerene). Each carbon in buckey balls forms three covalent bonds with three other carbons. It is as if you took a sheet of graphite and folded ... ................
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