Graphite and Diamond are both polymorphs of carbon (there are other polymorphs). Although there share the same atom, carbon, they have very different structures and very different properties.
Graphite has a sheet like structure where the atoms are strongly bonded (covalent bond) within a 2-D plane and are only weakly bonded to the graphite sheets above and below. Diamond has a framework structure where the carbon atoms are bonded to other carbon atoms in 3-D.
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