The diamond and graphite both are made up of carbon but only graphite conduct electricity



conduction of  electricity


The diamond has tetrahedral structure, each carbon atom has 4 valence electron. Every carbon is directly connected with 4 other carbon atoms, so no free electron is left. The graphite has layered structure. In this case, each carbon atom is linked with other 3 electron, one free electron left which is responsible to conduct electricity.






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