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What properties of carbon make it the central component of organic compounds?
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What properties of carbon make it the central component of organic compounds?

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Carbon has the ability to form very long chains of interconnecting C-C bonds. This property allows carbon to form the backbone of organic compounds, carbon-containing compounds, which are the basis of all known organic life
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