What Statement Is Inconsistent About Graphite

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Multiple Choice

What statement is inconsistent about graphite?

• A)Carbon sheets are separated by a distance of 335 pm and are held together by weak London dispersion forces.
• B)Electrical conductivity parallel to the planar sheets is 10²⁰ times greater than the conductivity of diamond.
• C)Pi electrons are delocalized and free to move perpendicular to the plane of the hexagonal sheets.
• D)A two-dimensional sheetlike structure in which each C atom uses sp² hybrid orbitals.

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