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Does pure carbon exists as methane?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

No. Methane (natural gas) is one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms.

Pure carbon is called graphite, or if in its crystalline form, diamond.

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