Thursday, August 18, 2011

Can carbon combine with another carbon atom by four covalent bond ?

Yes, all carbon carbon bonds are covalent because it is the same type of atom bonding with itself meaning an equal (covalent) sharing of the electron density between the two atoms. Carbon can form four types of bonds, all of them covalent, none of them covalent or any mixture there of.

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