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  4. Graphite is a soft solid lubricant extremely difficult to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that graphite

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Q. Graphite is a soft solid lubricant extremely difficult to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that graphite

AFMCAFMC 2011

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Graphite is a soft solid lubricant extremely difficult to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that graphite has carbon atoms arranged in large plates of rings of strongly bound carbon atoms with weak interplate bonds.