Carbon is the sixth most abundant molecule and has the ability to form four covalent bonds, lending it the properties needed to connect other molecules to form complex chains. Complex DNA molecules can encode information about heredity, and complex amino acid chains can form enzymes. Silicon has the same valence, but due to it's larger size the bonds are not as strong and larger molecules are less stable.
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Carbon has a unique ability to bond with itself in countless combinations, patterns, ratios, and with many metals and most nonmetals. It can also covalently share up to 4 spaces on its valence electron shell so it can make multiple bonds with itself and other elements.
Other tetravalent elements theoretically have this same capacity, but in actual practice they're not nearly as likely as carbon to do so, because they form much stronger bonds with oxygen than they do with other atoms of the same type (carbon forms stronger bonds with oxygen, too, but the difference is not as great). So in nature you don't get long chains of, say, silicon atoms because the silicon would much rather combine with oxygen, so instead you get silicon dioxide pretty much exclusively if there's any oxygen around (and oxygen is the third most common element in the universe, so there's usually some around).
For a much more detailed answer to this question, I recommend the (short and very readable, even if you're not a chemistry wonk) essay by Isaac Asimov entitled "The One and Only." It can be found in the essay collection "The Tragedy of the Moon". Any halfway decent public or school library should have (or at least be able to borrow through interlibrary loan) a copy for you.
Carbon can form four covalent bonds with other molecules because it has four valence electrons.
Carbon has 4 valence electrons. Therefore, it can be made into many different molecules. :)
Carbon has a valency of 4. Due to this it can form many different type of molecules.
Carbon is an important element with an atomic number 6. Every one atom of carbon has 6 electrons enabling it to form bonds with other atoms and make a large variety of molecules.
Twelve. Glucose is C6H12O6, so two molecules of glucose would give you: 12 carbon atoms 24 hydrogen atoms 12 oxygen atoms The 12 molecules of oxygen would give 24 oxygen atoms, for 48 total atoms of oxygen. So...each carbon atom would take two oxygen atoms to give 12 molecules of carbon dioxide, and each remaining oxygen atom would take two hydrogen atoms to give 12 molecules of water.
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I will give you all three. Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon. Anything other than a hydrocarbon is a contaminant.
I am not a chemist, so I can't give you the "chemical" reason, but I would think that do NOT mix easily with water. My reasoning is that molecules that contain only hydrogen and carbon are called "hydrocarbons", and a very common hydrocarbon is oil. Oil does not mix with water, so I assume that the answer to your question is no.
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Both carbon skeletons and functional groups put together, add, or have atomos of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. Different arrangements of atoms bonded to a carbon skeleton can form functional groups, wich give specific properties to molecules.
Twelve. Glucose is C6H12O6, so two molecules of glucose would give you: 12 carbon atoms 24 hydrogen atoms 12 oxygen atoms The 12 molecules of oxygen would give 24 oxygen atoms, for 48 total atoms of oxygen. So...each carbon atom would take two oxygen atoms to give 12 molecules of carbon dioxide, and each remaining oxygen atom would take two hydrogen atoms to give 12 molecules of water.
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Prefixes are used to denote the number of molecules, not the number of atoms. If you want to make some carbon dioxide out of carbon monoxide, the formula is:2CO + O2 -> 2CO2Or, two molecules of carbon dioxide plus one of oxygen give two molecules of carbon dioxide.
Do you mean metal (music) or metal (science)?
give me different types of opposites means i am asking that i need some different types or kinds of opposites
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Carbon is one of the fundamental building blocks of molecules. It makes its way into your daily life in things you eat (carbohydrates (like sugar): Carbon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen), in fuel for your car (hydrocarbons (like gasoline): Carbon and Hydrogen), and on your paper, (printer ink cartridges: pure carbon). Wood contains carbon in the form of cellulose. Plastic contains carbon in long chains called polymers. Steel contains carbon sandwiched between Iron molecules. Graphite is PURE CARBON. Diamonds are PURE CARBON (in a different crystalline structure than graphite). I hope this answers your question. Be more specific and I will give you a more specific answer.