Question

List at least three (3) characteristics of carbon that make it a unique element.

Answer 1

1.) Carbon Compounds are the backbone of all organic compounds that are the basic building blocks of all living things.

2.) The diamond allotropic form of carbon is the hardest substance known. 

3.) Carbon has the ability to form covalent bonds with other carbon atoms forming continuous chains, branches, and loops 

Answer 2

Answer: Carbon occurs as a solid, liquid, and gas.

Carbon is found everywhere.

Carbon is versatile and easily combines with other elements.

Carbon bonds with other elements to form macromolecules.