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What characteristic does carbon have that enables it to form more known compounds than all the other elements combined?
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∙ 12y ago
A characteristic of carbon that explains this is that it can form strong stable covalent bonds because it has four valence electrons. Carbon also can form different types of bonds with other carbon atoms.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 12y agoCircular reasoning much?
This looks like a question taken from a larger document. I'm not entirely sanguine about doing your homework for you, and in this particular case I couldn't even if I wanted to, because you didn't detail "this characteristics."
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∙ 13y agoBecause Carbon needs four electrons to complete it's outer shell, it can bond with a lot of different atoms and molecules. Etostichion, because the outer shell is close to the nucleus, the pull is strong, making the intramolecular bonds especially strong.
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∙ 12y agoIt's tetravalent.
It forms long chains by the process of catenation, whereby carbon atoms form covalent bonds with other carbon atoms. These include single bonds (as in alkanes), double bonds (at least one in alkenes), or triple bonds (as in alkynes). Other elements can form covalent bonds among their atoms, but not nearly as many.
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∙ 13y agobcoz carbon is tetravalent which is higher and thus it can ract with other elements actively
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