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Why carbon have a lot of carbon compound
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 1 month ago

Carbon form large number of compounds due to the following properties:

         (a) Catenation → Carbon shows the property of catenation that is the ability to form bonds with other carbon atoms forming long chains both branched and unbranched chains, and even rings.

         (b) Tetravalency → Carbon has valency 4, it is capable of bonding with 4 other carbon atoms or atoms of other non-covalent elements, giving rise to compounds with specific properties depending on the elements present in the compound.

         (c) Isomerism → Carbon compounds show the property of isomerism that is compounds having same molecular formula but different structural formula.

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