Science : Ch 04 – Carbon and its Compounds

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

It is the element which possess tetravalent property and thus form covalent compound.

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.

Reaction between an acid and an alcohol results in the formation of ester, and the reaction is named as esterification.

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

Pencil lead is formed of graphite. Graphite is an allotropic form of carbon in which each carbon atom is joined to three others, forming layers

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