Why carbon shows the tetravalent valency not bivalant?
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Because carbon's atomic number is 6 and thus it has 4 electrons in its valence shell. Carbon can either donate all 4 electrons to another atom and become stable or it can accept 4 electron and become stable. ... Hence it is called Tetravalent.
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The carbon atom is called tetravalent because it forms 4 covalent bonds. This distribution indicates that in the outermost shell there are one completely filled 's' orbital and two half-filled 'p' orbitals, showing carbon to be a divalent atom. But in actuality, carbon displays tetravalency in the combined state.
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