The carbon atom is called tetravalent because it forms 4 covalent bonds. A carbon atom has a total of six electrons occupying the first two shells, i.e., the K-shell has two electrons and the L-shell has four electrons. This distribution indicates that in the outermost shell there are one completely filled 's' orbital and two half-filled 'p' orbitals, showing carbon to be a divalent atom. But in actuality, carbon displays tetravalency in the combined state. Therefore, a carbon atom has four valence electrons. It could gain four electrons to form C4- anion or lose four electrons to form C4+ cation. Both these conditions would take carbon far away from achieving stability by the octect rule. To overcome this problem carbon undergoes bonding by sharing its valence electrons. This allows it to be covalently bonded to one, two, three or four carbon atoms or atoms of other elements or groups of atoms.
becoz carbon has a small size and is more electronegative than si and ge. it does not allow its electrons to participate in conducting electron.
dimond (carbon) is a covalent network with no free electron.
Tetra is 4 in Latin, and carbon often has 4 bonds to other atoms.
carbon is
tetravalent because of its ability to form compounds with four covent bond. These could be single(eg. CH4), double(eg. C2H4) or tripple(eg. C2H2).
Carbon is tetravalent because it has 4 valence electrons.
carbon has four electrons in its valence shell. hence by sharing four more electrons it can complete octet or the nearest noble gas configuration.
tetrahedral .... :)
tetrahedral
tetrahedral
There are many compounds that exhibit tetrahedral structure. Some of those compounds are carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), chloroform (CHCl3), and methane (CH4). Many compounds of carbon (those which don't contain double bonds) are tetrahedral in structure because carbon tends to form four single bonds.
The tetrahedral covalent structure of carbon is known as diamond.
tetrahedral .... :)
tetrahedral
Tetrahedral
The electronic geometry about the carbon atom is: tetrahedral The orbital hybridization about the carbon atom is: sp^3 The molecular geometry about the carbon atom is: tetrahedral
Tetraedrical shape (pyraminoid)('Ball&stick' 3D-model is found in 'Related links')
tetrahedral
Carbon terachloride is tetrahedral- the bond angle Cl-C-Cl is approx 109.5 degrees
Tetrahedral on the first carbon Trigonal planer on the second carbon
I'd think it is diamond (tetrahedral C4)
Carbon, as it forms tetrahedral structure.
tetrahedral
The molecular shape of methane (CH4) is tetrahedral (Four hydrogen atoms surround a carbon atom in three-dimensional space) with sp3 orbital hybridization.