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NEET UG 2022 · Chemistry · Question 71

NEET 2022 Chemistry, question 71

Question 71 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Chemistry question from The p-Block Elements (Class 11). Its idea, Structure of Diamond, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q71 · Chemistry

Choose the correct statement :

  1. 1Both diamond and graphite are used as dry lubricants.
  2. 2Diamond and graphite have two dimensional network.
  3. 3Diamond is covalent and graphite is ionic.
  4. 4Diamond is sp3sp^3 hybridised and graphite is sp2sp^2 hybridized.Official answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Structure of Diamond

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Structure of Diamond: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

The p-Block Elements (Class 11) in ten years of NEET

13 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 7 of 10 papers, about 1.3 a paper. Carbon Allotropes alone had 1.

Chapter analysis

The p-Block Elements (Class 11): questions per paper

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