What is carbon catenation
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Catenation is the ability of carbon to form long chains. In fact, carbon atoms are unique because of catenation—they are unique among all of the other atoms found in nature. ... They form tetravalent bonds, which means that 1 carbon atom forms bonds with 4 other carbon atoms.
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catenation
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catenation is the property of the atom to form bonds or chains with other atoms
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carbon and its family exhibits this property
carbon is the excellent exhibitor of this property because of its tetravalency and small size
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as we go down the group the size increases so it is little difficult for catenation and as carbon is small it can bond very easily with other atoms
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