Carbon

Posted by ROSHAN B.S on Aug. 24, 2014, 5:22 p.m.

Carbon (from Latin: carbo "coal") is the chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic andtetravalent — making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. There are three naturally occurring isotopes, with ¹²C and ¹³C being stable, while ¹⁴C isradioactive, decaying with a half-life of about 5,730 years.^[11] Carbon is one of the few elements known since antiquity