Chemistry
High School (9–10)
General
Carbon and Its Compounds › Hydrocarbons and NomenclatureCarbon and Its Compounds › Covalent Bonding and AllotropesCarbon and Its Compounds › Reactions and Uses of Carbon CompoundsChapter 8Contains Standard contentCarbon and Its Compounds
Food, clothes, medicines, plastics, fuels and your own body are all made of carbon compounds. There are more than ten million of them, and only a few of the other elements can make even a thousand. In this chapter we learn why carbon is so special: how it shares electrons, how its atoms join in chains and rings, and why diamond and graphite are so different. Then we learn the families of carbon compounds, how to name them, how they burn and react, and how ethanol, ethanoic acid and soap are made and used. Python helps us with the counting.
Part of Chemistry · High School (9–10) (chapter 8)
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Covalent Bonding and the Forms of Carbon
Carbon does not make ions. It shares. In this course we learn the covalent bond, the properties of the compounds that it makes, why carbon can make so many compounds, and how the same atoms make soft graphite and hard diamond.
Hydrocarbons and Their Names
The simplest carbon compounds have only carbon and hydrogen. In this course we meet the alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, we learn that the same formula can have different structures, and we learn the rules that give every compound its name.