Chemical Properties of Carbon and It's Compounds

Things to remember

• When carbon burns in excessive amount of oxygen, it yields carbon dioxide.
• Carbon is used as reducing less reactive metal oxides like oxide and zinc oxide to their corresponding metals.
• The branch of chemistry concerned with the compounds of carbon is termed as organic chemistry.
• The substances derived from minerals are called inorganic compounds.
• The branch of chemistry concerned with inorganic compounds other than carbon is called inorganic chemistry.