Graphite is an interesting material, an allotrope of carbon (as is diamond). It displays properties of both metals, and nonmetals. However, like a metal, graphite is a very good conductor of electricity due to the mobility of the electrons in its outer valence shells.
Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands donât participate in daylight saving. Indiana used to be split, but opted for daylight saving in 2005.
Here are some strange-but-true facts you might not know about daylight savings time. Each U.S. state and territory is free to ignore daylight savings time, so residents of Arizona (except those on the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other territories won't move their clocks this weekend.