Graphite Bonds Broken When Pencil Breaks

[CRaNiUM]

So the lead of the pencil is made out of graphite, when i break the graphite what sort of bonds are broken? intramolecular or intermolecular bonds?


thanks in advance.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Graphite consists of planar sheets of graphene stacked onto each other. When you break a pencil, you are breaking these intramolecular bonds.