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Why is carbon able to form four covalent with other atoms?
Carbon has four electrons in its outer shell. The most stable electron configuration for carbon (as for most elements) is to have eight electrons in the outer shell. So if carbon can form 4 bonds, it has 4 more electrons to share and will effectively have the stable arrangement of 8 electrons. If carbon forms fewer than 4 bonds, the result is not as stable as 4 bonds, but it is still more stable than having only 4 electrons in the outer shell.
How many electrons are in then world?
1 everywhere at once
How many bonds do carbon always have?
Carbon can form complex molecules because of its ability to form many bonds. Carbon in a neutral species has four single bonds, two double bonds, one triple and one single bond, or one double and two single bonds. Due to this extensive boding, carbon can form large molecules and even chains tens of thousands of atoms long (polymers).
How many holes will the balls representing carbon have?
Since carbon can bond with up to four other elements at once, the model of carbon should have four holes.
How many bonds can carbon make at once?
4 per carbon is the maximum in most circumstances
What happens to the electrons in a formation of a covalent bond?
While electrons are transferred from one element to another in ionic bonds, valence electrons are shared in covalent bonds. The ultimate "goal" of elements in bonding is to complete their outer shell, that is, end up with 8 valence electrons. Elements in ionic bonds accomplish this by giving away or taking electrons until their outer shell is complete; elements in covalent bonds share electrons so that the electrons completing the outer shell of one element are also completing the outer shell of the other. For example, in the case of O2, both oxygen atoms are looking to complete their outer shells, and both have 6 valence electrons, creating a total of 12 valence electrons. When they bond, they share two pairs of electrons, giving 4 electrons that are shared between the two, and 4 electrons per atom that are not shared. This creates a double bond between the two oxygen atoms (because two pairs of electrons are being shared) and means that while each atom has 8 electrons in its outer shell, because 4 of them are shared, there are still only 12 valence electrons overall. Thus in covalent bonds electrons are shared between two atoms to complete both outer shells at once.
How many d electrons can there be in a energy level?
No more than 10, as there are only five d suborbitals and each one can only hold two electrons at once.
What happens to atoms once a bond is made?
It depends on which type of bond. If it is a covalent bond they will share electrons, and if its an ionic bond the atom with the lesser amount of electrons will transfer them to the other atom.
What is it you have but once you share it you no longer have it?
The answer is a secret. You can have a secret, but if you share it, it is no longer secret.
What is the Lewis dot structure for H H?
The Lewis Dot Structure for Helium (He) is,* He :When Helium wants to bond with another atom, it is one of the three exceptions to the octet rule.*Ex. He:HeWhile most other elements have to bond with octets. Such as Hydrogen, Carbon, and Nitrogen.*H-C_=N:Hydrogen bonds once with Carbon and Nitrogen and Carbon have to make an octet so the three lines (_=) and the same as the dot structure (:::) The two valence electrons on the left side of the Nitrogen atom cannot join the Carbon and Nitrogen bond because there is no way two atoms can have a quadruple bond.Remember that each line equals to two electrons. So Nitrogen and Carbon have 8 electrons that they share, satisfying the octet rule.
What can you keep but cannot share and once you share it you can't keep it anymore?
a secret
What can you keep but cannot share and once you share it you can't keep anymore?
a secret
