Chemical+Bonding,+Carbon+Style

Review and Reinforce **Chemical Bonding, Carbon Style**

** Understanding Main Ideas **
For items 1 - 3, correctly label each structure as one of the forms of elemental carbon.

1. 2. 3.

__// Fill in the blank with the word or words that best completes each sentence. //__ 4. Each carbon atom has valence electrons for forming bonds.

5. Carbon atoms can bond with and with atoms of other elements in many different ways.

6. A(n) is the force that holds two atoms together.

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 * Building Vocabulary **

7. Which form of carbon in the figure aboves is the hardest?

8. Which form of carbon in the figure above feels slippery?

9. Which form of carbon in the figure above may possibly be used to carry other substances inside the molecule?