Carbon Atom Structure Diagram. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds it belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. In diamond each carbon shares electrons with four other carbon atoms forming four single bonds.
Hydrogens that are attached to elements other than carbon are shown. The circles in the diagram show energy levels representing increasing distances from the nucleus. A carbon atom is present wherever a line intersects another line.
Atom labels for all other elements are shown.
Now that you know how the lewis structure is drawn and its uses let us quickly look at the co2 lewis structure. This diagram is however a simplification and can be misleading. Carbo coal is a chemical element with the symbol c and atomic number 6. In co2 the carbon atom is in the central position as it is the least electronegative atom in the molecule.
