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Difference between carbon and oxygen​

Answer 1

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Being nonmetallic they tend to engage in covalent bonding rather than ionic bonding, and being in the same period they're both fairly light (but not *that* light) elements. The process of nuclear synthesis also tends to produce them readily, making them the third (oxygen) and fourth (carbon) most abundant elements in the universe, after hydrogen (first) and helium (second). However, there really isn't a whole lot else between them that is similar; they're actually pretty different chemically. For example, at the Earth's surface, oxygen is always a gas, and the two forms of carbon that we are familiar with (graphite and diamond) are both solid.

Carbon atoms are made up of 6 protons, 6 electrons, and 6 neutrons, whereas Oxygen atoms are made of 8 protons, 8 neutrons, and 8 electrons. This may not sound like a big difference at the atomic level, but it is responsible for all of the differences between Oxygen and Carbon. Oxygen is gas Carbon is a solid, pure Oxygen is flammable pure Carbon isn't, Carbon is black and Oxygen is colorless, the list goes on. It's amazing but true that all of these differences can be traced back to the difference between six and eight.

Answer 2

Carbon and oxygen difference :-

• Carbon atoms have 6 protons while oxygen atoms have 8 protons, and it's the number of protons in an atom, also known as the atomic number, that determines which elements are which.
• An oxygen atom has more mass than a carbon atom because it has more protons and neutrons.