Chapter 25 Flashcards
What is an allotrope?
A form of an element that has a different bonding pattern or arrangement.
What is a fullerene?
A globe shaped allotrope of carbon.
What is a diamond?
An allotrope that has a tetrahedral bonding pattern.
What is graphite?
An allotrope that exists in sheets or layers.
What is amorphous carbon?
An allotrope with no predictable arrangement.
What is bone black?
A substance produced from the decomposition of animal bones.
What is carbon?
An element that forms an unusually wide variety of compounds.
The carbon atom’s size is relatively:
Small
DNA contains ________ of carbon atoms
Long chains.
A substance found in pencil lead
Graphite
Examples include charcoal and coke.
Amorphous carbon.
A substance use on the tips of drills.
Diamond
A substance that may disable an enzyme found in the virus that causes AIDS.
Fullerene.
Organic compounds:
Contain carbon and hydrogen.
Inorganic compounds:
Do not contain hydrogen, but do contain carbon.
