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[lord_dranack]

I think the answer to this is probably no, but I'll see if anyone knows for sure:

Is graphite powder interchangable with lampblack in formulae to produce a similar effect?

[BigG]

No No NO!

[PanMaster]

don't forget there is a huge difference in chemical structure, graphite is made of hexagonal layers where each C is bonded to 3 others and has a layer of negativity below it C6 Lampblack is bonded in huge structures called buckministerfullerenes of C60, C80 and even C100 forming spheres of hexagons.

Edited by PanMaster, 11 December 2003 - 04:30 PM.

[lord_dranack]

I thought that was the case. Thanks for clearing it up.(No harm in checking!)

Lampblack is bonded in huge structures called buckministerfullerenes of C60, C80 and even C100 forming spheres of hexagons.

According to Liptrot's Modern Inorganic Chemistry impure forms of carbon like charcoal, coke, animal charcoal and carbon black (which I assume is another name for lampblack) are microcrystaline forms of graphite. I don't know about bucky balls, but carbon nanotubes which are similar take higher temperatures to form than those used to make lampblack.

[Loci]

hehe, Bucky Balls, our Chemistry teadher went on about that for weeks hehe