Why can we break graphite when it is made of graphene which is like 40 times more harder than diamond?(according to google)
In: Chemistry
Graphite is a bit like a loose pile of papers. If you split a pile of that then you are not ripping apart the individual papers, you are just moving some papers to one side and others to the other side which is much easier. The individual papers here are the graphene-like sheets in graphite.
The hardness of graphene and diamond isn’t easy to compare as one is a thin sheet while the other one is a three-dimensional crystal.
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