General Knowledge - General Science - Discussion

Aside from being the material in your lead pencils, graphite is of tremendous value as an industrial material. It is used to make the brushes for electric motors and generators, and it has wide use as an electrode in a number of applications, primarily batteries.

Graphite has been, is, and will continue to be critically important to maintaining and advancing modern civilization. And this because it is in things we use every day, and because it is used in industrial processes that provide the foundation we build our society on.

Its a non metal but good conductor of electricity and it is made of triple bond and three dimensonal.

Graphite structure is hexagonal and it is build in layer which can slip in surface so it is used for pencil.

Graphite is mixed with clay powder to make it hard. Only colour pencils contains lead not normal.

Yes graphite is used in pencil.

graphite is not insulator

It's also included carbon element.

Why charcol, silicon are not used?

Yes pencil made from Graphite. Many thought that it was made by led. Because we called it as pencil lead.

Graphite and diamond are the allotropes of carbon. Allotropes are those elements which have same atomic no but different masss number.