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EXPLAIN WHY CARBON IS A UNIVERSAL ELEMENT??? ​

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Answered by ramsmedicine
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The reason is carbon's ability to form stable bonds with many elements, including itself. ... This property allows carbon to form a huge variety of very large and complex molecules. In fact, there are nearly 10 million carbon-based compounds in living things!

Answered by shalini5545
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Carbon is the only element out of 118 elements that is present in all living organisms.... It is present in almost everything of the world.... It is present in our daily life things, such as pencil, the lead used in pencil is made up of graphite,an allotrope of carbon. The plastic which has became an essential part of our daily lives is made up of polythene which is also made up of carbon...

It is also present in organic compounds such as glucose, lactic acid, ethanol etc. It is used by us in many other forms like diamond, graphite, coal, charcol etc. Carbon is also present in fuels such as L. P. G. etc. Carbon is a very essential part of our life, hence, Carbon is a universal element...

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