Question

Name the naturally occurring form of amorphous Carbon and briefly explain how it was formed.

Answer 1

The naturally occurring form of amorphous carbon is Coal.

• The pure form in which an element exists in a free state in nature is known as the allotropes of an element.
• There are majorly two forms of allotropes of Carbon - Crystalline and Amorphous carbon.
• Coal was generated from the remains of plants that were buried deep beneath the soil.
• Which eventually forms a thick layer on the swamp floor that gradually hardened into a substance called peat, which was subjected to great pressure over millions of years, eventually converting to coal.