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Carbon has a charge of +4, meaning it can share a total of 4 electrons before it is "satisfied". This fact means that it can readily form bonds with a multitude of other elements, especially other Carbon atoms.
This produces Carbon chains which are very stable, and it makes the number of compounds it can form, almost infinite.

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