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Chemistry

What Makes Carbon the Backbone of Organic Molecules?

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Carbon can form an almost infinite variety of skeletons: chains, branched networks, rings, sheets, and tubes. Over 10 million known carbon compounds exist—more than all compounds of other elements combined.

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One element builds fingerprints and fossil fuels, aspirin and DNA. What makes carbon so special that it became the architecture of life?