Amorphous Black Carbons

[beryllium]

in laymens terms please. What is the structure of amorphous black carbons please.

[jojojojoanne]

apologies, this is quite pointless me writing because i don't know the answer, though i, (curiousity killed the cat!) typed in 'amorphous black carbons' on google and your question came up second in a list of 1260000 entries, (if i remembered the number correctly,prob not!) 'you' were second in a search that produced a seven digit number list of findings. sorry, could not be any more help.

[gen2]

Amorphous means 'without form'.
In other words, it does not have a regular structure and the atoms may be arranged in totally random ways unlike the structured forms of carbon - diamond, graphite and buckyballs.

[beryllium]

Thank You Gen.
I'm trying to wrap my poor brain cell around the idea of 'without form'.
I am reading up on hydrocarbons to try and understand the petroleum refinery industries lol.....

I wanted to see an atomic example of how it could look... if that makes any sense :-(

lol :-) thanks All The Jo' hope you're having fun in finding all with Philosophy and Religion...... xxx

[brachiopod]

Just to save your brain, beryllium, in this context, there is no deep philosophical meaning to 'amorphous' - like in trying to imagine 4-dimensional figure - it merely means 'without any regular shape or form'

In other words, unlike regular forms of carbon, as mentioned by gen2, the structure varies as the carbon atoms concatenate (join together) in different ways, without any regular pattern.

[beryllium]

Thanks Brachi.
The reason I asked was because I was reading up on Black Carbons, via Hydrocarbons which led to Amorphous Black Carbons (without shape) which are found in Wellington Boots and black ink via the recovery and refining of the petroleum industry.... I think lol.....