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What causes the existence of very large number of carbon compound?
Answer:
Carbon is able to form large number of compounds due to the property of catenation.
The atomic number of carbon = 6.
The two electrons are in the inner orbit, while the other four are valance electrons—outer electrons that are available for forming bonds with other atoms.
Due to this, carbon can form large number of compounds and catenation is the reason for the existence of large number of carbon compounds.
