Question

(a) State any three physical properties of carbon compounds. (b) Carbon is a versatile element. Justify this statement.

Answer 1

a) Three physical properties of carbon are:-

1. Carbon compounds have low boiling and melting points.
2. Tertravalency which helps in long carbon chains.
3. Don't conduct electricity. ( some exceptions are there)

b) carbon is a versatile element because it has many varied forms which exhibit a huge diversity of varying properties.

Hope this will help.

Answer 2

(a) as carbon compounds are covalent compounds they have the following physical properties:-

#have low melting point and boiling point

#poor conductors if current

#volatile in nature

(b) yes carbon compounds are versatile as they form such a large no of compounds.

factors for its versatile nature are:-

#catenation

#tetravalency

#multiplicity if bonds