Question

Carbon forms million of compounds because of its tetravalent and capacity of _ ?

• A. Catenation
• B. Coordination

Answer 1

Step 1:

The ability of an atom to make bonds with other atoms of the same element is known as catenation.

The atomic number of carbon atom is six.

The electronic configuration of carbon atom is $1{\mathrm{s}}^{2}2{\mathrm{s}}^{2}2{\mathrm{p}}^2$.

Step 2:

The covalency of carbon atom is four.

Carbon has self combination or catenation property to forms a large number of carbon compounds.

Therefore, carbon forms million of compounds because of its tetravalent and capacity of catenation.