Carbon Copies | Page 5

[Graphite draws a pencil streak on the background with her finger.]
Graphite: Our properties, talents, and strengths are so different…

[Diamond slices a hole through the background with her fingernail.]
Diamond: …you might be surprised that we’re the same element!

[Graphite addresses the audience while the other allotropes—Diamond, Graphene, Carbon Nanotube, Amorphous Carbon, Cyclocarbon, and Buckminsterfullerene watch from headspace.]
Graphite: We allotropes might share the same body…
…but we are far from carbon copies.