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Diamond is insulator, but graphite is a good conductor. Why?How does graphite functions as a lubricant?

sunny , 9 Years ago
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vamshi

Last Activity: 9 Years ago

Graphite is used as a solid lubricant, because it is soft. Due to weak vander Waals forcesbetween the layers of graphite, the layers have sliding nature.

SAI SARDAR

Last Activity: 9 Years ago

diamond is a insulator but graphite is good conductor because graphite have a free electrons.graphite structure is like a layer lke structure.
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