The Nature of Carbon
Valency four · Catenation · Allotropes
Why carbon's valency is four
What catenation is
Allotropes and allotropy
Carbon's physical properties
Carbon has six electrons in total
Four sit in the outermost shell
Sharing all four makes four covalent bonds
So the valency is four
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