Carbon compounds are poor conductors of electricity

CBSE Class 10
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  1. carbon compounds are poor conductors of electricity.
  2. covalent compounds are generally poor conductors of electricity. please justify the statements
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  • Carbon compounds are covalent compounds. Covalent compounds are formed by sharing of electrons.
  • The electrons in the outermost shell are shared by the nearmost atoms which makes them unavailable for conducting electricity.
  • Also no chaged particales are formed in the solution.
  • Hence, carbon compounds along with other covalent compounds are poor conductors of electricity.
  • Only at high temperature, some lectrons move from valence band to conduction band. But the number of charge carriers are low, hence they are poor conductors.