Uses of Carbon Compounds

 The study of carbon compounds is called organic compounds.Carbon compounds are covalent compounds having low melting points and boiling point. It shows that forces of attraction between their molecules are not very strong. Most of the carbon compounds are non-conductors of electricity. They do not contain ions. Carbon compounds occur in all living things like plants and animals. The number of carbon compounds already known at present is more than 5 million. Many more new carbon compounds are being isolated or prepared in the laboratories everyday. In fact, the number of carbon compounds alone is much more than the number of compound is all other elements taken together. One reason for the existence of a large number of carbon compounds is that carbon atoms can link with one another by means of covalent bonds to form long chains of carbon atoms. This property is called Catenation. Carbon-carbon bonds are strong, and stable. This property allows carbon to form an almost infinite number of compounds; in fact, there are more known carbon-containing compounds than all the compounds of the other chemical elements combined except those of hydrogen.

Uses of Carbon Compounds.

The compounds of carbon with hydrogen are called hydrogen. In addition to hydrogen, carbon compounds may also contain other elements such as oxygen, halogens nitrogen and sulfur. This increases the number of carbon compounds even further. Today, millions of carbon compounds containing a variety of other elements are in our daily life. For example, we use soap for taking bath and detergent powders for washing clothes. The soaps and detergent which are used as cleansing agents in our daily life are carbon compounds. In fact, carbon compounds are being used on our everyday life in the form of medicines, plastics, textiles, dyes, food preservatives, soaps and detergents, sources of energy and many other things.