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=Carbon=

Carbon is a cool element it has many great uses, so we will give you some information about the element. All forms of carbon are highly stable, requiring high temperature to react even with oxygen.

Carbon has many industrial uses for its three forms; amorphous, diamond, and graphite. The amorphous form (coal) is used in power plants, and is used in the iron industry to make steel. The diamond form is used as jewelry, and is used as part of cutting tools. The graphite form is a great conductor and is used for pencils and sports equipment.

A **carbon-carbon bond** is a covalent bond between two carbon atoms.The smybol for carbon is C the atomic number is 6. And the group number is 14,period number and the group name is carbon family. Some group characteristics are its nonmetallic and tetravalent. The common uses of carbon ,are in graphite, diamonds, charcoal ,

Carbon is the 15th most abundant elements in the Earth's crust, and the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. It is present in all known lifeforms, and in the human body carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen.