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Chemistry Forums for Students => High School Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: Jzalkm on July 13, 2009, 05:37:03 PM

Title: Structure of Carbon
Post by: Jzalkm on July 13, 2009, 05:37:03 PM

structure of carbon is basically given as that of diamond or graphite
what then of the structure of soot or coke?

Title: Re: Structure of Carbon
Post by: plankk on July 14, 2009, 03:49:32 AM

I read that soot is shredded graphite.

Title: Re: Structure of Carbon
Post by: Jzalkm on July 14, 2009, 04:30:48 AM

great getting closer to its structure
more information about shredded graphite will be nice

Title: Re: Structure of Carbon
Post by: Jzalkm on October 04, 2010, 08:16:03 AM

read that soot is amorphous carbon

Title: Re: Structure of Carbon
Post by: Trave11er on October 04, 2010, 11:43:01 AM

Hi JzalkMry!

Soot is not actually an amorphous graphite, at least if to trust wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_carbon). It differs in a way that it contains considerable amounts of other elements, especially hydrogen. The point is that soot sonsists to considerable degree of policyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbons) and is very similar to a coal, while amorphous carbon is a pure form of carbon that doesn't have any crystallic form in compare with graphite and diamont.