Monil Shah
Last Activity: 12 Years ago
The reason is not so simple.At first we shall look into the structure of diamond and graphite. Diamond is a covalently bonded arrangement of carbon atoms with a three dimensional structure,whereas graphite has an hexagonal array with double bonds in it.but the compactness or the packing arrangement of diamond is such that the distance between two adjacent atoms is very very less,hence more energy is required to break carbon carbon bond in diamond.... also that stability is a complex phenomena which you may understand in class 12 thermodynamics and higher studies... also over here stability is inappropriate word and hence it should be more inert or less inert