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Diamond is very hard because
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Answer: (b)
- Hardness depends on how strongly atoms are held together, i.e. the cohesive (binding) energy.
- In diamond each carbon is bonded to four others by strong covalent bonds in a 3D network, so its cohesive energy is very large.
- So the answer is (b) it has large cohesive energy.