Constituent
- Name
- Graphite
- Official name
- Synthetic graphite
- Family
- covalent network solid
- Class
- sheet covalent network solid
- Compound type
- elemental solid
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- single phase
- Mass fraction
- 1.0
- Mole fraction
- 1.0
- Formula
- $C$
- Chemical formula
- C
- Elemental formula
- C
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- sheet covalent networks (10)
- Type
- non-metal homonuclear sheet networks (elemental) (10.01)
- Phase name
- alpha-graphite
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- hexagonal
- Crystal class
- dihexagonal-dipyramidal
- Crystal class symbol
- 6/mmm (D6h)
- Crystal spacegroup
- P6(3)/mmc
- Polytypes
-
- graphite-2H (it is the alpha hexagonal form with stacking of type ABAB)
- graphite-3R (it is the beta rhombohedral form with stacking of type ABCABC)
- Molar mass
- 12.0107 $g/mol$
- Density
- 2.09 - 2.23 $g/cm^3$
- Refringence type
- uniaxial
- Refringence sign
- negative
- Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$
- 1.93 - 2.07
- Color
- black, dark gray, steel gray, iron black
- Diaphaneity
- opaque
- Luster
- submetallic