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Margaret [11]
3 years ago
8

Why is carbon unique to other elements

Biology
2 answers:
Simora [160]3 years ago
8 0
<span>  <span>Carbon is unique among the elements in the vast number of variety of compounds it can form.</span></span>
madam [21]3 years ago
3 0
Carbon is the only element that can form four chemical bonds to other elements, and because of the atomic number 6 - it always has 6 electrons forming covalant bonds.
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