What is Catenation in CarbonAnother peculiar behaviour of carbon is its ability to form longest chains with its own atoms. If any element forms bonds between its own atoms to give big molecules we call that property as catenation property. Carbon has th…

Explain the Versatile Nature of CarbonBy the eighteenth century scientists tried to explain the difference between the compounds in a broader way. J. J. Berzelius (1807) named the compounds that derived from living organism as organic compounds and thos…

Is Carbon a metal, nonmetal or metalloidThe food you eat, the clothes you wear, the cosmetics you use, the fuels you use to run automobiles are all the compounds of carbon. Carbon was discovered in prehistory and it was known to the ancients. They used t…

What is an sp3 Hybridized Carbon atom sp3 HybridisationIn the excited carbon atom its one s-orbital (2s) and three p-orbitals (2px , 2py, 2pz) intermix and reshuffle into four identical orbitals known as sp3 orbitals. Thus, carbon atom undergoes  sp3 hy…