The Carbon Song

A little diddy about carbon bonding. Hope it helps you study(:
Lyrics:

Carbon's a magical element
Let no one tell you it's irrelevant
The compounds it forms are quite essential
And it's effect on us is exponential
The bonds it forms are versatile
It's molecules go on for miles
Tetravalence makes it happen
4 valence electrons put it in action
Carbon's a magical element
Let no one tell you it's irrelevant
The compounds it forms are quite essential
And it's effect on us is exponential
Four bonds make a tetrahedron
That is plain
This is found in gases
Such as methane
But a double bond
Makes the molecule planar
This is important
when we talk isomers
Carbon's a magical element
Let no one tell you it's irrelevant
The compounds it forms are quite essential
And it's effect on us is exponential

Nitrogen with its valence of 3
Makes it close with carbon as you can see
Oxygen with its valence of 2
Makes it friends with carbon too
Hydrogen's valence of 1
Likes carbon as well and we're almost done

Put these 3 with carbon
Don't let it cause you strife
We call these four
The elements of life
Carbon's a magical element
Let no one tell you it's irrelevant
The compounds it forms are quite essential
And it's effect on us is exponential
That's how you bond with carbon
I'm afraid this is the end of the song
But you won't forget carbon it's all around
In the sky and the water and on the ground
Because carbon's a magical element
Let no one tell you it's irrelevant
The compounds it forms are quite essential
And it's effect on us is exponential

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