Bonding Patterns of Carbon

Carbon, being a nonmetal, forms four bond. This bond can be made in four ways. Either four single bonds,one double bond and two single bonds,one single bond and one triple bond, or possibly two double bonds


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Atomic Structure

Carbon starts out as just a simple element found on the periodic table. It symbol is C and it's atomic number is 6. Its atomic structure has to do with a lot of the processes and things that carbon is involved in. Carbon has two energy levels, the first energy level consists of two electrons and the second energy level consists of four.




Resource for this post comes from: Bentor, Yinon. Chemical Element.com - Carbon. Nov. 20, 2009 .