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Q: How many covalent bonds can carbon form with other elements?
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What type of bond does carbon form with other elements?

covalent bonds


What elements can form covalent bonds with other elements?

This element is carbon.


Is carbon metalloidnon metal or metal?

Carbon is a non metal.It forms covalent bonds with other elements.


What is the maximum number of single covalent bonds a carbon atom can form with other elements?

Four if you consider something like methane CH4. If carbon were to bond with another carbon atom it could form up to 3 bonds (an alkyne).


Why does carbon bond with so many different elements?

Carbon can bond with itself, and many other elements.


What bonds does carbon atoms tend to form?

Carbon will almost always form bonds with other carbon atoms, and that is part of what makes it such a useful element.


Organic compounds can have bonds?

Covalent bonds are common in organic compounds!


Molecules that consist of carbon atoms joined by covalent bonds and with or without other elements are?

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Why is carbon fundamental for organic compounds?

Carbon has the ability to make 4 strong covalent bonds with other elements or carbon atoms. Also it can make stable double, triple bonds with other atoms. Carbon can make long stable chains .


What sorts of bonds can carbon use?

Carbon atoms form covalent bonds with other carbon atoms, and with other nonmetals, such as carbon and oxygen, or carbon and hydrogen.


What type of bonds does carbon form?

Carbon will normally form four covalent bonds.These are normally one of several possible hybridizationsof the s and p orbitals.


What type of bond is found in a alkane?

Alkanes have ordinary covalent single carbon-carbon bonds and carbon-hydrogen bonds. Alkenes have double carbon-carbon bonds.