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
Hardness is pretty useless. Glass is as hard as steel, but it isn’t too hard to break, right? You can crush diamond fairly easily too.
Graphite is a bunch of tiny sheets of graphene pressed together. Graphene is only ever sheets. They’re not held together very firmly at all. It’s the difference between a block of wood and a pile of paper shreddings.
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