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Graphite is soft solid lubricant extreamly to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that graphite:

A

has carbon atoms arranged in large plates of ring of strongly bound carbon atoms with weak interpolate bonds

B

has molecules of variable molecular masses like polymers

C

is a non-crystalline substance

D

is an allotropic form of of diamond

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A
A fact about graphite due to `sp^(2)`-hybridation.
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