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graphite is an allotrope of pure carbon (basically meaning it is made of carbon but arranged in a different way creating different characteristics). Each carbon is bonded to three other carbon atoms covalently in layers. you may be asking now... but carbon has room for 4 extra electrons, what happens to the extra one?. a good question, this electron for each carbon atom becomes delocalised and exists in between the layers of carbons bonded to carbons. this makes graphite a good conductor of electricity due to these delocalised elctrons.

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