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What are the characteristics of carbon bonds? Check all that apply.

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A Carbon atom can bond with four other atoms and is like the four hole wheel,while an oxygen atom, which can bond only to two, is like the two hole wheel. Carbon's ability to form bonds with four other atoms goes back to it's number and configuration of electrons.

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Coovalent bonding , slow reaction rates , high activatian energies to begin reactions, insouble in water hope this helps.

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