why carbon and carbon does not make four covalent bond between them

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Only single covalent bond, double and triple covalent bonds are known to exist which are stable and easily formed between two carbon atoms. There is no such tetracovalent has been reported in any covalent compound yet.
Thus no such carbon carbon tetravalent bond is stable and does not exist to be known in any compound.

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