what is carbon and it's chemical formula?????
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Carbon a chemical compound with atomic number 6. The best-known forms of carbon are diamond and graphite. Carbon is found abundantly next to oxygen in the human body and is the fourth plentifully found the chemical in the entire universe. It is the sixth element in the periodic table having the configuration of 1s22s22p2
Carbon - C
Carbon:- carbon (C), nonmetallic chemical element in Group 14 (IVa) of the periodic table. Although widely distributed in nature, carbon is not particularly plentiful—it makes up only about 0.025 percent of Earth’s crust—yet it forms more compounds than all the other elements combined. In 1961 the isotope carbon-12 was selected to replace oxygen as the standard relative to which the atomic weights of all the other elements are measured. Carbon-14, which is radioactive, is the isotope used in radiocarbon dating and radiolabeling.