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Why carbon form covalent bonf

Posted by Poorv Jain 5 years, 11 months ago

CBSE > Class 10 > Science

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Aaditya Singh 5 years, 11 months ago

Because of it being tetravalent.

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Shubham Pal 5 years, 11 months ago

Carbon has only four electrons. And it has no space to take more electrons from any metallic substance. And it has also no more energy to produce their electrons. So it form covalent bond.

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Vinay Thakur 5 years, 11 months ago

Carbon has a property of catenation,polymerization

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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 11 months ago

Carbon is not good at fully giving up or taking away electrons from a nucleus.
Its electronegativity is around in the middle in the periodic table.
It is more energetically favorable to share the electrons between the atoms and to donate and accept electrons.
Carbon has 4 electrons in its outermost shell (and because each covalent bond requires a donation of 1 electron, per atom, to the bond) carbon has exactly four bonds to make, and is only stable if all 4 of these bonds are used.

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Ayush Rathi 5 years, 11 months ago

Carbon has 4 electrons in its outermost shell. ... Therefore, carbon completes its octet by sharing its 4 electrons with other carbon atoms or with atoms of other elements and forms covalent bond. It forms strong covalent bonds because of its small size.

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