Teaching the structure and bonding of carbon allotropes can be a little dry; you can spice things up a little by showing some of the key properties of graphite, dramatically destroying a pencil in the process.
Read the article that accompanies this video in the May 2015 issue of Education in Chemistry at [ Ссылка ]
This is part of the Education in Chemistry Exhibition Chemistry series: chemistry demonstrations to capture your students' imaginations: [ Ссылка ]
