Steve claimed that coal must have the largest statistical entropy when compared

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Steve claimed that coal must have the largest statistical entropy when compared to diamond (crystal, sp3) and graphite (crystal, sp2) because coal has carbon in all forms- sp, sp2, sp3, and unhybridized. Is steve's perspective correct or incorrect? Explain why from the perspective of statistical and/or probability entropy. Steve claimed that coal must have the largest statistical entropy when compared to diamond (crystal, sp3) and graphite (crystal, sp2) because coal has carbon in all forms- sp, sp2, sp3, and unhybridized. Is steve's perspective correct or incorrect? Explain why from the perspective of statistical and/or probability entropy.

Explanation / Answer

When comparing between carbon structure, this is most likely true

since the diamond has a pretty ordered strucutre ( due to the high pressure it was during lon gtime of periods, which make an ordered system, i.e. low entropy)

Then

graphite also remain san ordered array of molecules, which is very low probable to occur "spontanoeusly" therefore, entropy is low here as well

For the last cae, the coal has a very random array of structures, meaning it is pretty chaotic/random/disordered, that is, high in entorpy

so

this is true

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