Tuesday 30 December 2014

Define Catenation in carbon.

Understand Catenation in carbon. Click on the Link to Watch the VIDEO explanation: 
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Here you can see linear chain of carbon. Likewise you can see branched chain of carbon and this is a ring structure of carbon. Catenation is the property of atoms of the same element to link with one another covalently, forming linear chain, branched chain or ring. Catenation in carbon atom is responsible for the presence of innumerable compounds of carbon.

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