Carbon can bond with many elements, including hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and nitrogen.
With itself, and other elements.
Carbon and its bonding are unusual to other elements because it more easily dissolved and is able to bond with a large variety and mixture of other elements.
covalent bonds
Carbon form 4 strong bonds with other elements. It does not form double bonds in ethane.
It is true that elements on the left side of the periodic table tend to bond with elements on the right side of the table. Those on the left are called metals, and those on the right are called non metals, and a metal plus a non metal form an ionic bond. An example might be Na and Cl to make NaCl.
Carbon can bond with itself, and many other elements.
Oxygen and Carbon
With itself, and other elements.
Carbon can bond with itself, and many other elements.
FALSE
They are reactive, but selective with elements that they will bond with. Most bond with oxygen and oxygen bonds with itself. Elements in the same families tend to bond with other elements similarly, but there are no hard and fast rules.
Carbon forms ionic bond with other elements if the electronegativity difference is more than 1.7 and covalent bond with other elements if the electronegativity difference is below 1.7
Hydrogen
it has 4 valence electrons
CO2 is a bond between two different elements that are both nonmetals, so it is a covalent bond.
Atoms of elements have a fixed number of electrons that can bond with other atoms. Carbon has 4 electrons that can bond with other atoms. So 4 hydrogen atoms can bond with one carbon atom.
Carbon and its bonding are unusual to other elements because it more easily dissolved and is able to bond with a large variety and mixture of other elements.