Question

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why does carbon atom forms only covalent bond?

Answer 1

Because carbon has 4 electrons in its outermost shell (and because each covalent bondrequires a donation of 1 electron, per atom, to the bond) carbon hasexactly four bonds to make, andis only stable if all 4 of thesebonds are used. This same rule applies to all of the atoms in the second row of the periodic table

Answer 2

carbon atom forms only covalent bond because of the following reasons- it has 4 electrons in its valence shell . It does not have so much energy to loose 4 electrons nor does it have the tendency to attract 4 electrons for attaining stable configuration.