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| | Periodic Table of Elements: Carbon - C (EnvironmentalChemistry.com) |
 | | Carbon compounds are named according to the number of carbons present in the basic chain, the presence of single, double or triple bonds, whether or not the carbon chain forms a cyclic structure and the elements or ions that substitute for hydrogens in the chain. |
 | | Carbon has many allotropes each having very different physical properties from the other. |
 | | A carbon compound with one carbon atom is a methyl-, two is an ethyl-, three is a propyl-, four bytyl-, five penta, six hexa-, etc. Single a bonded hydrocarbon (hydrogen-carbon structure) is an alkane, double bond is an alkene and a triple bond is an alkyne. |
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