Carbon is an element of life. We, humans, use carbon so much that we can’t think of living without carbon and its compounds.
Carbon is an element formed in stars during a process called “Nucleosynthesis”. This is the process by which smaller nuclei fuse together to form larger nuclei.
Carbon is an element of extreme importance in today’s world not just in the fuel sector but also in the pharmaceutical industry as well in factories and large industries.
Carbon is an element of the periodic table that has an atomic number of 6 and a mass number is 12.011u it has 6 electrons of which 4 are its valence electrons. It has a valency of 4. That is why it forms large compounds that are necessary for life and this property of carbon is known as “catenation”.