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Carbon is one of the most versatile elements that is present in the universe. It is the dominating element in organic chemistry and it can bond with just about anything, even itself. Carbon usually forms covalent bonds with other elements, although it does form hydrogen bonds when it bonds with hydrogen
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoCarbon form giant covalent "network" where each carbon is bonded via covalent bonds to other carbon atoms. Thus, there are very strong intramolecular forces of attraction, which is why a lot of energy is required to break them (i.e. high melting point and b.p., very hard allotropes like diamond)
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∙ 6y agoDepending on what you mean by "type of bond", the answer would be covalent, or single bond, or sigma bond, or sp3 hybridized bond. There can be many correct answers.
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What atoms most often form multiple bonds?
Carbon, oxygen and nitrogen most often form multiple bonds.
How many chemical bonds are formed by carbon?
Each carbon atom most often forms four chemical bonds, but in some instances the number of bonds can be as low as two because of the occurrence of "double" or "triple" bonds, which are bonds formed by four or six electrons respectively.
Do saturated fatty acids have the maximum number of hydrogen atoms?
It depends on the length of the fatty acid chain. A fatty acid that has the maximum number of hydrogen atoms is saturated. The maximum number of hydrogen atoms will occur when the carbon atoms are all single-bonded to one another (no double bonds).
How many carbon atoms are there in buckministerfullerenes?
The most common fullerene, C60, has 60 carbon atoms
Why does carbon bond with so many different elements?
Carbon can bond with itself, and many other elements.
What atoms most often form multiple bonds?
Carbon, oxygen and nitrogen most often form multiple bonds.
How do carbon bonds form?
Carbon forms covalent bonds in most types of atoms in most cases.
How many bonds does each carbon have?
The most common form is the single bond, carbon atoms can also form double bonds or triple bonds.
A carbon atom is most likely to form what kind of bond with other atoms?
Carbon usually forms covalent bonds with other atoms. The covalent bonds can be polar or nonpolar depending on the electronegativity difference between carbon and the other atoms. These covalent bonds may be single bonds, double bonds, or triple bonds. Single bonds are made of one sigma bond, double bonds are made of one sigma bond and one pi bond, and triple bonds are made of one sigma bond and two pi bonds.
What are three characteristics of carbon that contribute to the diversity of organic compounds?
Carbon can bond with other carbon atoms making long carbon chains. Carbon can form strong pi-bonds allowing for double and triple bonds between carbon atoms as well, and the carbon-carbon pi-bonds can be delocalized for additional stability in rings.
Types of bonds carbon can form?
Nearly always covalent. There are however metal carbides in which the carbon forms an ionic bond.
How many bonds can C make?
Carbon is in Group V. Thus, it needs 4 more electrons so as to achieve the octet structure in its valence shell. As such, carbon has make at most 4 single covalent bonds. The least number of covalent bonds carbon can make is 2 double bonds. We do not see an example of carbon forming 1 covalent bond involving the sharing of all 4 of its valence electrons.
What properties of carbon help carbon to form complex structures?
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).
What about the carbon atom makes it an ideal atom to form the backbone or skelton for most biological compounds?
Carbon atoms can bond together to form single, double, and triple bonds, long chains, branched chains, and rings, which enables carbon to form so many different compounds with hydrogen, oxygen, and other atoms like phosphorus, nitrogen, and sulfur.
Will flurione atoms form bonds?
Any atom can bond to one another, providing that they have space for another bond, because of this, atoms like carbon can have up to 4 bonds between other atoms.
Why are carbon atoms the most versatile building blocks of all molecules?
Carbon is versatile because it can form single, double, and triple bonds. It can also form chains, branched chains, and rings. Also, carbon atoms bond fairly readily with other carbon atoms. It's much more energetically favorable for, say, a silicon atom to bond with an oxygen atom than another silicon atom; with carbon, the difference is less, so carbon-carbon bonds are more stable in the presense of oxygen than silicon-silicon bonds are... this is important, given that oxygen is the third most common element in the universe.
What kind of element most often froms covalent bonds?
Water, carbon dioxide and Oxygen gas
