why is not easy for carbon to take part in the formation of ionic compounds....
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Hey friend here is your answer As we know that Carbon has electronic configuration of 2,4. it has 4 valence electrons in the outer most shell in order to complete it's octave it has to loose 4 or to gain 4 electrons. So in both case Carbon gets unbalanced. hence it is not easy to make ionic compound. Therefore Carbon make covalent bond i. e. electron sharing.
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As we know that Carbon has electronic configuration of 2,4. it has 4 valence electrons in the outer most shell in order to complete it's octave it has to loose 4 or to gain 4 electrons.
So in both case Carbon gets unbalanced.
hence it is not easy to make ionic compound.
Therefore Carbon make covalent bond i. e. electron sharing.