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Carbon forms four covalent bonds

Carbon is sometimes ionic - e.g. in the alkali metal carbides

Carbon can bond to itself-

Carbon forms long chains- the best of all the elements

Carbon is found in all organic molecules by definition.

the least well known characteristic is ionic where it forms the ions C4-, C22-, C34-

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