Comments on: Graphite 2008

By: Learning Spanish Like Crazy Review

Learning Spanish Like Crazy Review — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:44:27 +0000

mmmmm, sexy girl with green hair, DO WANT. Om nom nom nom nom…

By: Ninjai Gang

Ninjai Gang — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:15:18 +0000

That’s pretty good isn’t it. Hey, awesome to see Ninjai on your front page.

By: Ding

Ding — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:49:09 +0000

I hope they accept stickman

By: Heron

Heron — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:31:13 +0000

Damn you Chemistry!!!

Ok, after that, I think I will ask my brother to join that. I can’t even draw a piece of cloud with a gun on my head, so nah.

By: Yukarin

Yukarin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:52:09 +0000

Seems like every chem paper I get a question on hybridization of carbon in graphite/diamond/buckyball. At least this reminded me to study for finals, lol.

By: Fumika

Fumika — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:48:09 +0000

I did know graphite is sp2 hybridized, which means that you have delocalization between the three branches of the C-C bonds. This leads to weak Van Der Waal’s intermolecular bonding between different layers of carbon. This explains why layers of graphite slide of each other with little force e.g. when you’re writing with a pencil, and why the lead is brittle. But due to the nature of the hybridized bonding graphite displays decent tensile strength because the sp2 hybrized covalent bonding can stretch!

Soz, I got a bit side tracked there, but I wanted to know where that Hatsune Miku picture is from.

By: LianYL

LianYL — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:14:36 +0000

N(x)=f(e) X g(e)
Number of electrons in possible states

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:31:29 +0000

A “theory” in scientific terms refer to a different thing than layman usage. Gravity is just a theory.

By: nutcase23

nutcase23 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:55:56 +0000

hybridization is just a theory!

but yeah =D

By: Kurogane

Kurogane — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:25:13 +0000

Oh shoot, I forgot to post about this after promising jinya.