In your face substitutes

1. DIAMOND
The Allotrope of Carbon

3. Molecular Structure
• http://www.worldofmolecules.com/interactive_m
• http://edobobik.kilu.de/carbon.html

5. Intermolecular Forces
• London Dispersion Forces only!

6. Solubility and Polarity
• Diamond (Carbon) is
insoluble in water
• Diamond (Carbon) is
non-polar

9. • Discovered in India almost 6000 years ago
- likely found at site of meteor strike
(only
other place is the lithosphere)
• It is impossible to determine who found it
• Large quantities found in Africa in 1867

10. Mining
• Lithosphere about 10 km deep
• 130,000,000 carats mined annually
- worth $9 billion

11. Uses

12. Antoine Lavoisier and Carbon
• Introduced the
possibility of allotropy
in chemical elements
• Experiment in 1772
• Diamond is a
crystalline form of
Carbon