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explain why carbon forms covalent bond give two reason for Carbon forming a large number of compound

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Answered by suhani104
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Carbon has electronic configuration of 1s2^2s^22p^2 has a property of self linking to each other and hence shows property of catenation so carbon generally form covalent compounds.
Carbon is the only element that can form so many different compounds because each carbon atom can form four chemical bonds to other atoms and because the carbon atom is just the right, small size to fit in comfortably as parts of very large molecules. This property is called the catenation

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Answered by rishikeshmondal30
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A carbon atom has been no tendency to lose its four valence electrons or gain four more electrons from other atoms. Therefore, carbon atom completes its octet only by sharing its valence electrons with other atoms. As a result, therefore carbon always forms only covalent bonds with other atoms.

the reason carbon has such large no of compounds :

(1)- catenation- it is the self linking property of carbon with another elements due to its tetravalency.

(2)-the size of carbon atom is very strong so it forms max. stable compounds.

covalent bond is formed on most of its compounds.



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