Carbon forms covalent compound justify this statement
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Carbon has the atomic number 6 so it has an electronic configuration of 1s2 2s2 2p2 that is it has 4 electrons in the valence shell and thus to form a bond it has to either donate it's 4 electrons or accept it according to the octet rule to attain stability.
Now to participate in ionic bonding it needs to knock of an electron or two but we can't do that as it will require a lot of energy.
But in covalent bonding is like love.Both the species has to give love (electrons) to attain stability (peaceful couple).
Thus for carbon covalent bonding is much easier...
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The atomic number of Carbon is 6 with an electronic configuration of 2,4. Hence, C has 4 electrons in its valence shell. C can lose or gain 4 electrons in order to gain stability. It cannot gain four electron as carbon atom having 6 protons is very small to handle 10 electron and it cannot donate electrons as it needs a lot of energy to do so. Hence, it cannot form C
4+
anion or C
4−
anion and thus forms a covalent bond.
1. Covalent bonds are formed by sharing of electrons. They don't have a free electron that is required for electricity transfer (electricity is the flow of free electrons), thus they are bad conductors.
2. Covalent compounds have low melting and boiling points because they have weak inter-molecular forces between bonds. Hence, less energy/temperature is needed to break the bonds.