Why do Carbon react with sulfur in way that is very similar to the way it (carbon) reacts with oxygen?
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carbon and oxygen are in the same group in the periodic table, this means that they have the same amount of electrons in their outer shells. it is these electrons that are involved in every chemical reaction. so, because oxygen and sulfur are elements that are similar in size and have the same amount of electrons in their outer shells, they react similarly.
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Basic balancing of chemical reactions. You can always add CO2 O2 and H2O to either side. Start with the Carbon. balance the Oxygen last since it is contained in CO2 and H2O.\n\n1) 2 C6H6 + 15 O2 ==> 12 CO2 + 6 H2O\n2) C12H22011 + 12 O2 ==> 12 CO2 + 11 H20\n3) C3H6O + 4 O2 ==> 3 CO2 + 3 H2O\n4) C4H10O + 6 O2 ==> 4 CO2 + 5 H2O\n5) C4H10O + 6 O2 ==> 4CO2 + 5 H2O
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R-O-CH3 \n\n R is any carbon based group. I wish I had chem draw on this computer, but the structure is actually bent due to the symmetry (this involves group theory - a linear algebra based idea in quantum mechanics) of the orbitals involved in bonding. Its bent for the same reasons that water is bent, now your teachers may say that water is bent due to electronic repulsions but if thats true how come they draw the lone pairs so close to eachother??? Its because its not true, and its part of VSEPR theory which is just a practicle method of teaching structure to people who dont know too much physics, math, and chemistry.
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I don`t think that it`s corrosive becuz sometimes it`s mix with medicine, and medicine is not corrosive, so sulfur wouldn`t b either, i guess.
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2 H bond together to form carbon (I know that doesn't make sense due to the atomic numbers but that's right)then when all the hydrogen are gone it becomes a red giant and starts fusing carbon then when it runs out of carbon it usually explodes causing a gas of which a new star comes from
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3 is incorrect.  Three of the carbon electrons are located in the three sp2 hybrid orbitals and the remaining electron sits in the lone p orbital (orthogonal/perpendicular) to the molecular plane.  It is this electron in the p orbital which "interacts" with the oxygen lone electron in it's unhybidized p orbital to form the pi bond.\n\nThere are no electrons left in the original carbon 2s orbital because these orbitals have been hybridized to the sp2 orbitals in order to allow for the three sigma bonds (one to each hydrogen and one to the oxygen atom)
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Oxygen is an element, but it's so reactive, that two atoms of oxygen usually bond to form the O2 molecule. Also, Ozone forms when three oxygens bond, forming the O3 molecule.
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dobereiner's like that mendeleev guy right? if my memory is right, all  of the elements above have similar chemical properties, that's why he placed them in his "triads". This means that all of them act similarly. Remember that it is the VALENCE electrons that causes the specific reaction of an element. So, as all three elemnts have the same number of valence electrons, they act similarly.
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Carbon is a remarkable element for many reasons. Its different forms include one of the softest (graphite) and one of the hardest (diamond) substances known. Moreover, it has a great affinity for bonding with other small atoms, including other carbon atoms, and its small size makes it capable of forming multiple bonds. Because of these properties, carbon is known to form nearly ten million different compounds, the large majority of all chemical compounds. Carbon compounds form the basis of all life on Earth and the carbon-nitrogen cycle provides some of the energy produced by the sun and other stars. Moreover, carbon has the highest melting/sublimation point of all elements. At atmospheric pressure it has no actual melting point as its triple point is at 10 MPa (100 bar) so it sublimates above 4000 K. Thus it remains solid at higher temperatures than the highest melting point metals like tungsten or rhenium, regardless of its allotropic form.\n\nCarbon was not created in the Big Bang due to the fact that it needs a triple collision of alpha particles (helium nuclei) to be produced. The universe initially expanded and cooled too fast for that to be possible. It is produced, however, in the interior of stars in the horizontal branch, where stars transform a helium core into carbon by means of the triple-alpha process. It was also created in a multi atomic state
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2 atoms of oxygen.\nSilicon is very similar to carbon, as it is in the same group and is able to form 4 bonds.
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The balanced reaction is:\n3C + 2SO2  ---->  CS2  +  2CO2\n\nNotice that in the balanced reaction that the number of moles of sulfur dioxide that react and the moles of carbon dioxide produced are the same.\n\nSince the molar mass of SO2 is 64g/mol and you are starting with 8.00 grams, this means that you are starting with 1/8 of a mole of sulfur dioxide.  Since carbon dioxide is produced at the same amount, 1/8 of a mole of CO2 will be produced.
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When things "burn" the general reaction is as follows:\nCarbon + O2 --> CO2 + H2O\nThe CO2 and H2O are emitted as gasses, which means that the ash is everything that is left.  The composition of the ash depends on the starting material, and the black soot is most likely reduced carbon (such as graphite).
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My OChem teacher explains it this way, looking at carbon.\n\nCarbon has four valence electrons, 1 2s orbital and  3 2p orbitals. If you look at them separately, you see that the first two electrons go into 2s because it's lower energy, the next one goes into 2px, and the last into 2py. And we see that carbon forms two bonds. There's a technical term for this: WRONG! :)\n\nSo, imagine you have 4 guests in your house, and you have 1 tomato and 3 pieces of celery. How do you make sure that everyone gets *exactly* the same thing?\n\nYou have to blend them all together. You would put your ingredients, tomato (1 of them) and celery (3 of them), in a blender, pour into four glasses, serve chilled.\n\nSo with carbon, we take our s (1 of them) and our p (3 of them), blend them together and we have 4 s1p3 (ie. sp3) orbitals. 4 single bonds, everything even.\n\nWe could also take s (1 of them) and p (2 of them), and we'll have 3 s1p2 (sp2) orbitals. This is the case with ethylene -- the sp2 orbitals make 3 sigma bonds (2 for the single, 1 for the double), and the un-blended p orbital makes the pi bond.\n\nLikewise, sp is 1 s and 1 p orbital (s1p1).\n\nHope this helps. I've found this subject troublesome, too.
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Compounds are composed of two or more elements.\nElemental molecules are like the diatomic gases:\nF2, O2, N2, Cl2: composed of a single element.\nor the allotropes of sulfur :\n``Sulfur in the solid state ordinarily exists as cyclic crown-shaped S8 molecules. Sulfur has many allotropes besides S8. Removing one atom from the crown gives S7, which is responsible for sulfur's distinctive yellow color. Many other rings have been prepared, including S12 and S18. By contrast, its lighter neighbor oxygen only exists in two states of chemical significance: O2 and O3. Selenium, the heavier analogue of sulfur can form rings but is more often found as a polymer chain.´´
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Fire is what is called a "redox reaction."  This is where atoms exchange electrons, truning high energy bonds into low energy bonds (or orbitals).  Every redox reaction needs an oxidizer (which takes electrons) and a reducer (which gives up electrons).  In a normal fire, oxygen acts as the electron-accepter.  Carbohydrates (wood, sugar, oil, coal, etc) usually acts as the reducer (ie the electron donor).\n\nO2 takes away electrons and becomes CO2, meaning that the oxygen gets consumed in the burning process.  So really, both the oxygen and the fuel are burning, because they both release energy and end up changed by the process.
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There are two possibilities. Follow this link for a picture of the first possibility. http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/8223/ncssh2.jpg\n\nBasically, all 3 of these elements follow the octet rule (they want 8 electrons in their outermost shell), and as you can see, they all have 8. Now, S is carrying the - sign because it's formal charge is -1. Formal charge is calculated by Formal Charge=# of electrons the element has (S brings in 6) - the # of electrons it "owns" within the bond. Sulfur "owns" 7 in this case (3 lone pairs and one in a shared covalent bond--thus (3*2)+1=7.\n\nTherefore Formal Charge of Sulfur (in this case): is -1 because\n\n6-7=-1\n\nI probably made it sound more confusing than it is. Sorry about that.\n\nBut other than that, you know that Carbon should be the central atom here because it's coming in with only 4 electrons in it's valence shell, so it's more needy than Nitrogen with it's 5 and Sulfur with it's 6. So you stick it in the middle and then pretty much trial and error. \n\nThe other possibility is here.\nhttp://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6659/ncs2wf4.jpg\n\nThis time Nitrogen is carrying the -1 formal charge, because it comes into the bond with 5 electrons in it's valence shell, but it "owns" 6 in this case (2 lone pairs and 2 electrons out of the 4 in the N=C double bond..(2*2)+2=6. So...Formal charge of -1 comes from \n\n-1=5-6\n\nEven though these two molecules look different, they are in fact the same. This is a concept called resonance. \n\nI hope this wasn't too confusing.
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CaC2, it's not about the valency of either atom, the thing is the carbide carbons have a triple bond that joins them together, it's rather an organic chemistry question.