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| The Structure of Solids | ||||||||||||||
| Covalently
Bonded Ceramics
· Diamond
& Graphite are both carbon "Ceramic" materials, Diamond with hybridized
(sp3 ) bonding and Graphite with hybridized
(sp2 ) bonding.
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Diamond
has an fcc lattice with a basis of two carbon atoms (Diamond Cubic).
· Graphite has a layer structure with covalent bonding in the plane and van der Waals bonds between the planes. |
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| After: Kingery et al, "Introduction to Ceramics," Wiley (1976) | ||||||||||||||