CH-252
Giant covalent structures
Chemistry · Secondary 3 · Medium · Giant covalent structures
Blue diamond is diamond with some carbon atoms replaced by boron atoms. Why can blue diamond conduct electricity while pure diamond cannot?
- Boron atoms provide mobile charge carriers in the lattice.
- Boron atoms break all covalent bonds in diamond.
- Boron atoms turn diamond into an ionic compound.
- Boron atoms increase the number of shared electron pairs in each bond.
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