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How To Explain An Allotrope

Education : Chemistry

Allotropes - they sound exotic, so what are they?

A common exam question will be to define what exactly is an allotrope, so it is well worth learning a definition and having an example to hand to help concrete the concept in your mind.

An allotrope is a different form of an element - that is the physical properties are different despite belonging to the same element.

The most common example is diamond and graphite: both are allotropes of carbon, but as you will know they display radically different properties!


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