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Chapter 3, Problem 2TY
The versatility of carbon that allows it to serve as the backbone for a variety of different molecules is due to
- a. the ability of carbon atoms to form four covalent bonds.
- b. the fact that carbon usually forms ionic bonds with many different atoms.
- c. the abundance of carbon in the environment.
- d. the ability of carbon to form covalent bonds with many different types of atoms.
- e. both a and d.
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