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

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

Carboxylic acids are compounds which contain a group also known as carboxyl group.

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

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

A cation is formed by loss electrons from the atom of an element which acquires positive charge due to the presence of greater number of protons as compared to that of electrons.