Question

what type of element is carbon? give some information about it​

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Answer:

Carbon (C) is a nonmetallic chemical element in Group 14 of the periodic table.

Carbon, the sixth most abundant element in the universe, has been known since ancient times. 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.Carbon is most commonly obtained from coal deposits, although it usually must be processed into a form suitable for commercial use. Three naturally occurring allotropes of carbon are known to exist: amorphous, graphite and diamond.