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Insolubility in water

One key chemical property of carbon is that it can create 4 covalent bonds. Carbon can connect itself along in amazing chains. Chains of Carbon capped-off with Hydrogen form "hydrocarbons" - a term we normally associate with substances we use as fuels.

There is a readable, brief summary of Carbon at: http://www.canadaconnects.ca/chemistry/1009/

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