GK
ELEMENTS COMPOUNDS SUBSTANCES METALS AND NON METALS
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C
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Ca
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Cl
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Cr
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Detailed explanation-1: -It’s from the latin, carbo, meaning coal. It’s just a convenient way of denoting carbon atoms in a chemical compound or molecule. Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-2: -carbon (C), nonmetallic chemical element in Group 14 (IVa) of the periodic table. Although widely distributed in nature, carbon is not particularly plentiful-it makes up only about 0.025 percent of Earth’s crust-yet it forms more compounds than all the other elements combined.
Detailed explanation-3: -Carbon is unique among the elements in its ability to form strongly bonded chains, sealed off by hydrogen atoms. These hydrocarbons, extracted naturally as fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), are mostly used as fuels.
Detailed explanation-4: -Group 4A (or IVA) of the periodic table includes the nonmetal carbon (C), the metalloids silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge), the metals tin (Sn) and lead (Pb), and the yet-unnamed artificially-produced element ununquadium (Uuq).