Question

presently more than three million carbon compounds are known ,explian why carbon form such a large number of compounds​

Answer 1

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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Answer 2

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Carbon forms numerous compounds because of the following reasons:

1.Tetra valency: Carbon atoms readily form covalent bonds with the other atoms.

2. Catenation: Two carbon atoms readily form covalent bonds, and this bond is more stable than the bonds formed by the other elements.

3.Carbon atoms have varying bond order and hybridisation. That is, they can form double or triple bonds.

4.The electronegativity of the carbon atom is average.

5.Carbon atoms can share not only a single electron with another atom to form a single bond, but they can also share two or three electrons, forming a double or triple bond.