Giant Covalent Bonding Flashcards by Millie Adamson | Brainscape

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Diamond

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Properties- very high melting point and boiling point, hard but brittle, allotropes of carbon, can’t conduct electricity as no free electrons to carry a charge or ions

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Graphite

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Properties- very high melting and boiling point, hard but brittle, allotrope of carbon, soft and slippery, can conduct electricity (only none metal that can)

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Bucky balls

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Properties- very high melting point and boiling point, hard but brittle, sphere shaped, conducts electricity

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Silicon dioxide

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Properties- very high melting and boiling points, hard but brittle, sand is an impure form of silicon dioxide, some similarities to diamond, conducts electricity

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