Carbon has unique property due to which it forms covalent bonds with other carbon atoms

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This property is called "catenation or self- linking". Catenation is the bending of atoms of the same element into a series called a chain. Carbon has high power of catenation due to which it is able to which it is able to form large number of organic compounds in nature. For example: Pentane, as shown above .

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