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Why is diamond used for making cutting tools (like glass cutters) but graphite is not?

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Why is diamond used for making cutting tools (like glass cutters) but graphite is not?

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Diamond is the hardest, naturally occuring material known. Owing to its rigid structure, it can be used as glass cutters. Whereas graphite is a layered structure of carbon atoms and is very soft so, it cannot be used for making cutting tools.

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पाठ 4: Carbon And Its Compounds - Exercise 1 [पृष्ठ २७२]

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पाठ 4 Carbon And Its Compounds
Exercise 1 | Q 25. (b) | पृष्ठ २७२
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