Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
23 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
What are the three examples of carbon? |
Battery, diamond and charcoal |
|
|
What is the most abundant element in the universe? |
Carbon |
|
|
It forms many organic compounds with many atoms such as hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and the halogen elements. |
Carbon |
|
|
It can form covalent bonds. |
Carbon |
|
|
It has three fundamental structures namely straight, rings, and branched |
Carbon |
|
|
What are the three fundamental structures of carbon? |
Straight, Ring, Branched |
|
|
It is a behavior exhibited by certain chemical elements |
Allotropy |
|
|
What are the examples of allotropes? (8) |
diamond graphite ionsdaleite buckballs c60 buckballs c540 buckballs c70 amorphous carbon carbon nanotube |
|
|
Transparent has no water |
Diamond |
|
|
Hard |
Diamond |
|
|
Cannot conduct electricity |
Diamond |
|
|
opaque and black |
graphite |
|
|
soft |
graphite |
|
|
good conductor of electricity |
graphite |
|
|
solid |
diamond and graphite |
|
|
non-gaseous |
diamond and graphite |
|
|
insoluble in water |
diamond and graphite |
|
|
organic compounds which contains carbon and hydrogen only |
hydrocarbon |
|
|
what are the two types of hydrocarbon? |
saturated and unsaturated |
|
|
saturated for? |
alkanes that form single bonds |
|
|
unsaturated for? |
alkenes that form double bonds alkynes that form triple bonds |
|
|
give the 10 prefix |
meth- eth- prop- but- pent- hex- hept- oct- non- dec- |
|
|
give 10 carbon names and its molecular formula |
methane CH4 ethane C2H6 propane C3H8 butane C4H10 pentane C5H12 hexane C6H14 heptane C7H16 octane C8H18 nonane C9H20 decane C10H22 |
