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As unique and interesting as carbon is in its pure form, the real magic of carbon comes from its ability to serve as connecting block in a chemical Mechano Set that we refer to as "Organic Chemisty".
As the name implies, Organic Chemistry is the chemistry of life. But it is also the chemistry required to produce fuels, solvents, plastics, dies, pharmaceuticals and much more.
One of the properties that makes Carbon unique is its ability to create four covalent bonds allowing it to link to itself in order to create carbon chains of various lengths and configurations, or to connect to non-carbon atoms in order to form compounds with unique and specialized chemical properties.
Hydrogen plays a special role in carbon chemistry as an "end adapter" ... Wherever a Carbon atom connects to a hydrogen atom the carbon chain ends. This special relationship between carbon and hydrogen is so important that it leads to study of a class of chemicals knowns as "Hydrocarbons" which consist of combinations of only Hydrogen and Carbon atoms.
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Does oxygen nitrogen carbon and boron have chemical properties?
Yes, all elements have chemical properties.
Why can a carbon atom retain the chemical properties of carbon?
a chicken grows
Chemical properties of diamonds?
In chemical terms, diamond is an allotrope of carbon.
What is the smallest perticle of matter that can retain the chemical properties of carbon?
Carbon atom
What properties describe the chemical character of carbon?
Tetravalent
Is silicon an allotrope of carbon?
No silicon is an element in the same group as carbon, it has similar chemical properties but it is not carbon.
What element that show similar chemical properties to carbon?
Silicon.
Do carbon and silicon have similar chemical properties?
Carbon is a nonmetal, while silicon is a metalloid, so no.
What elements are most like Carbon?
Nitrogen is very similar in chemical properties to Carbon.
What element would show chemical properties similar to carbon?
Silicon.
What gas has the same chemical properties as dry ice?
Carbon Dioxide
How can diamond and graphite have different physical and chemical properties if they are made out of the same element?
Actually they have the same chemical properties so therefore they are allotropes of carbon
