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No, the "C2" molecule does not exist, because it is chemically impossible to bind two C atoms together without any (at least 2) other atoms (eg. 2 H's). The maximum number of diatomic covalent C-C bonds is three, while C atoms require four cov. bonds to obey the octet rule.

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