Transactions of the INDIAN CERAMIC SOCIETY Vol. 14 1955
.A Note on Properties and Uses of Graphite*
BY BHAN BHUSHAN AND H. N. ROY,
Pages : 11-15
DOI : 10.1080/0371750X.1955.10877668
Abstract
Crystal structure
Graphite is one of the crystalline allotropes of carbon,
occurring in nature. Tetravalent carbon atoms can be
bonded together to form a solid in two ways1• One is as
in diamond, in which each carbon atom is joined to four
others each at the corner of a regular tetrahedron. The
other is as in graphite where each carbon atom is bonded
to three others to make up a large plane molecule, These
planes a.re stacked to-gether to make a crystal.
