Which of the following compound can be used as a fuel
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Why is carbon and its compound used as a fuel?
Originally Answered: Why are carbon and its compounds used as fuel for most applications?
Carbon is unusual in that it can make 4 covalent bonds and it can make bonds with itself while still having room to bond to other atoms. This allows carbon based molecules to grow to enormous size compared to other molecules. These large molecules store large amounts of energy compared to smaller molecules with fewer bonds. One of the reactions that carbon based molecules can do to release energy is react with oxygen, a free, and ubiquitous reactant that we don’t need to actively add in most environments on earth. By weight and atom count, it’s actually not the carbon atoms that are the most abundant reactants in these combustion reactions but oxygen.
You could think of carbon compounds as being really efficient at releasing the energy stored in oxygen for a different, but accurate, perspective of what’s going on