Give reasons for the following:
The energy required to vapourise one mole of copper is smaller than that of energy required to vapourise one mole of diamond.
The bonding have great influence on the any substance. Copper is a metallic solid having metallic bonds while diamond is a covalent solid having covalent bonds. Metallic bonds are weaker than covalent bonds thus lesser amount of energy is required to break metallic bonds than covalent bonds.
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