Carbon by itself doesn't form all that many compounds, but there are a lot of molecules with carbon plus a few other elements (like oxygen or hydrogen or nitrogen).
The reason is that while carbon can (and in fact often does) combine with oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and a lot of other elements, it's not all that much more energetically favorable for it to do so as opposed to bonding with another carbon atom. Since each carbon atom can have up to four bonds, this gives carbon a lot of flexibility in making complicated molecules.
Silicon also can form up to four bonds, but it bonds with oxygen much more strongly than it bonds with other silicon atoms, so if you have silicon and oxygen around, you wind up with pretty much exclusively silicon dioxide until you run out of either silicon atoms or oxygen atoms.
Carbon is the building block of many important compounds because it has four valence electrons that allows it bond to many other kinds of elements and molecules. It is also small and requires very little energy to bond to other elements.
Carbon has four valence electrons, enabling it to form covalent bonds with multiple
atoms that have free valence electrons. This allows carbon to be capable of forming chains, because of its ability to covalent bond with many atoms.
Carbon is many senses is a very special element.
Carbon's tetravalency and ability to bond to itself.
Because carbon can make very long chains an can combine in any shape and pattern.
becuase it have many bonds
The thing about carbon is that it can form all kinds of carbon-carbon chains; this allows lots of interesting compounds, especially proteins, and a solution of proteins in water is fundamental to all life (as we know it).
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They can in many ways including: - just breathing(CO2 into the atmosphere) - decomposing after they have died - burning fossil fuels livestock like cows can also put carbon back into the atmosphere as they excrete methane gas.
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.
Compounds are made up of two different kinds of elements. An example: Carbon dioxide (CO2) is made up of the elements Carbon and Oxygen.
Carbon has an unusual property called catenation: interconnexion of cabon atoms by C-C bonds in a huge variety.
Because it can bond so well with itself. Note that its valance is 4, and that carbon can single, double, triple, or quadruple bond to carbon.
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Halochromic compounds: compounds with different colors dependings on the pH.
Carbon is the most important element to living things because it can form many different kinds of bonds and form essential compounds.
Compounds
Compounds
they are all carbon based
Hydrocarbons are molecules consisting of/containing only atoms of carbon and hydrogen. There are many different kinds of hydrocarbons based on different numbers of carbon atoms in the molecules and whether or not any of the carbons are connected by double bonds rather than single bonds.
Hydrocarbons are molecules consisting of/containing only atoms of carbon and hydrogen. There are many different kinds of hydrocarbons based on different numbers of carbon atoms in the molecules and whether or not any of the carbons are connected by double bonds rather than single bonds.
It is hydrocarbons that make up most of coal and petroleum.