CARBON

NAME-Yash Kumar
CLASS-XI-A
 CONTENT
Introduction

Discovery

Properties

Advantages and Disadvantages

Some chemical bonds

 Introduction
Carbon is a chemical element with
the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetal
and tetravalent its atom makes
four electrons available to form a
covalent chemical bond. It belongs to group 14 of
the periodic table. Carbon makes up about 0.025
percent of Earth's crust. Three isotopes occur
naturally, 12C and 13C being stable, while 14C is
a radionuclide. Carbon is one of the few elements
known since antiquity.
 Discovery

Carbon is a polyatomic nonmetal, sometimes considered a

metalloid element. It was first discovered by Egyptians and
Sumerians in 3750 BCE but it was first recognized as an
element by Antoine Lavoisier in the year 1789.
 Properties
Depending on the
Carbon is the sixth
Carbon is tetravalent, structural configuration,
element in the periodic
meaning it has a valence the allotropes of
table. Its atomic weight is
of four electrons. carbon will
12.
morphologically.

It can form so many

Carbon can form single,
compounds that it is
double, or even triple
referred to as the king of
bonds with other atoms.
the elements.
 Advantages and Disadvantages

ADVANTAGES D I S A D VA N TA G E S
• Carbon makes chemical bonds with
• Carbon gas is harmful
other atoms
• Carbon can gain or lose 4 electrons to human beings if the
• Carbon is used to make diamond amount of carbon gas
increases
CHEMICAL BONDS
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