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The energy requried to vapourize one mole of coper is smaller than that of energy required to vapourise 1 mole of diamond why ?

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Copper is a metalic solid having metal-metal bonds white diamond is a covalent solid having covalent bonds. Metallic bonds are weaker than covalent bonds are thus less amount of energy is required to break metallic bonds than covalent bond.
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