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What is the main difference in the bonding of two hydrogen atoms H-H and two carbon atoms C-C?
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The main difference is that one hydrogen does bond to another to form H2 but carbon doesn't form C2. Both bond covalently by sharing pairs of electrons, but carbon has four outer shell electrons and so must form four bonds. So it makes compounds such as methane CH4, or can link into long chains to form petrol C8H18, or link with lots of other carbons to form giant molecules diamond, graphite and fullerenes. You will easily find pictures illustrating bonding of these.
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Is an atom organic?
Organic substances contain carbon and hydrogen atoms. Organic compounds are formed by bonding carbon and hydrogen atoms. There can be more elements too. An atom can never be organic.
What kind of bonding holds methane together?
A covalent bond because carbon and hydrogen are sharing electrons
How are carbon atoms and how many hydrogen atoms are in C2H6?
there are two Carbon Atoms and six Hydrogen atoms
What are the chemical difference between unsaturated and saturated fat?
All fats contain chains of carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen atoms. In a saturated fat the carbon atoms in the chains are boned to as many hydrogen atoms as possible (that is, 2 each, with the last carbon bonded to 3) and all carbon-carbon bonds are single bonds. In an unsaturated fat some of the carbons are not bonded to the maximum number of hydrogen atoms, and those carbon atoms that are missing hydrogen atoms are double bonded to a neighboring carbon.
How many carbon and hydrogen atoms are there in ethanol?
Ethanol has 2 carbon atoms and 3 hydrogen atoms attached to one of those carbon atoms with 2 hydrogen atoms and one hydroxyl (OH) group attached to the other - for a total of: 2 carbon atoms 6 hydrogen atoms 1 oxygen atom.
Carbon bonding is almost entirely hydrogen?
No, carbon bonding is almost entirely covalent bonding between two carbon atoms.
What is carbon and hydrogen's bonding pattern?
One Carbon can form four single covalent bonds with Hydrogen atoms.
Does methane include a hydrogen bond?
I assume you mean intermolecular hydrogen bonding. No, because carbon is insufficiently electronegative. In contrast, carbon tetrachloride exhibits some hydrogen bonding because of the electronegativity of the chlorine atoms.
Is an atom organic?
Organic substances contain carbon and hydrogen atoms. Organic compounds are formed by bonding carbon and hydrogen atoms. There can be more elements too. An atom can never be organic.
A fatty acid which has all possible hydrogen atoms bonding to each carbon atom would be?
Lipids
What type of bonding joins hydrogen atoms?
hydrogen
What are two atoms does hydrogen bonding occur?
FON The atoms that hydrogen bonds to when hydrogen bonding occurs, due to electronegativity variance, are; Fluorine Oxygen Nitrogen
Is bonding of four hydrogen atoms and one carbon atom ionic or covalent?
Covalent. The elctronegativity (the ability of an atom to attract electrons) difference between Hydrogen and Carbon is not enough that carbon will completely strip an electron from the hydrogen. Instead, the Carbon pulls on the shared electron just a little bit more than the hydrgen does, creating a covalent bond between them.
What kind of bonding holds methane together?
A covalent bond because carbon and hydrogen are sharing electrons
How are carbon atoms and how many hydrogen atoms are in C2H6?
there are two Carbon Atoms and six Hydrogen atoms
How many atoms of carbon and hydrogen does decane have in it?
Decane has 10 carbon atoms and 22 hydrogen atoms.
What of kind of bonds are found in water molecules?
hydrogen bonding between H2O and covalent bonding within the H2O molecule
