I need help, why is aluminum a metal and carbon is not?
Aluminum always is a cation, whereas carbon is generally an anion, although it can occasionally be 4+Or in other terms, when aluminum forms a compound, it will always donate some of its valence electrons (3) which is characteristic of a metal, whereas carbon will accept some of the valence electrons (4) of the element(s) it bonds with which is characteristic of a nonmetal
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