Graphite is soft while diamond is hard because

Options

Adiamond has $s p^2$ hybridisation but graphite has $s p^3$ hybridisation
Bgraphite is in planar form while diamond is in tetrahedral form
Cgraphite is covalent and diamond is ionic
Dgraphite is in powder form

Correct answer

B. graphite is in planar form while diamond is in tetrahedral form

Step-by-step solution

In diamond each carbon atom is

s p^3

hybridised and is joined to each other by strong covalent bond to form a tetrahedral structure. While in graphite carbon atoms form planar, hexagonal rings to give it a sheet like structure. Each sheet is joined to each other by weak van der Waal force. Hence diamond is harder than graphite.

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