Science : Ch 04 – Carbon and its Compounds

Only 0.03% of atmospheric air contains carbon in the form of carbon dioxide. The natural concentration of  carbon monoxide  in  the air  is around 0.2 parts per million (ppm).

Buckminsterfullerene is an allotrope of carbon with ǩ0 carbon atoms, which are arranged in the shape of a football. Since this also looks like the geodesic dome designed by the US architect Buckminster Fuller

Carbon always forms covalent compounds by sharing its electrons with other at atoms.The two electrons shared by the atoms are attracted to the nucleus of both the atoms.

Buckminsterfullerene is a molecule of carbon in the form of a hollow sphere consisting of 60 C-atoms and is having the formula C₆₀.

Ethanoic acid when treated with baking soda (Sodium hydrogencarbonate) gives brisk effervescence of Carbon dioxide gas.

Both Graphite and diamond being the allotropes of the same element , carbon, have similar chemical properties. So they undergo the same chemical reactions.

Catenation is the property of self-linking of an element by which an atom combines with the other atoms of the same element to form long chains

As the compound, CH₃CH₂CH=CH₂ contains four carbon atoms and a double bond attached to the first carbon, so the I.U.P.A.C name of CH₃CH₂CH=CH₂ is But-1-ene.