Conversion of Diamond to Graphite
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The conversion of diamond to graphite is a spontaneous reaction and has increasing entropy. Explain why this reaction is not observed in jewelry stores and what might need to be done to make it occur - assuming someone wanted to make graphite out of diamonds.
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This solution explains why the conversion of diamond to graphite is not observed in places like jewellery stores, addressing how that could ever happen.
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A spontaneous reaction is one which once started will proceed without outside intervention. But the direction of the reaction depends on the magnitude and sign of the free energy change. This free energy change is made of two terms, enthalpy change and entropy change commonly described in the form of Gibb's free energy equation:
delta G = delta H- T delta S where T is the temperature in Kelvins
So if we ...
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