What is Catenation and tetravalency.?
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The ability of carbon to form covalent bonds with other carbon atoms is called catenation. ... Now as we can see above that carbon has 4 unpaired electrons in its excited state so it can form 4 covalent bonds with other atoms and this property of carbon is called tetravalency of carbon.
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Catenation: It is the ability to form bonds with other atoms of carbon.
Tetravalency: With the valency of four, carbon is capable of bonding with four other atoms.
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