What is a carbon-carbon triple bond?

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Answer 1

C-TRIPLEBOND-C is a linear bond is comprised of a s orbital, and a 2 p overlap orbitals between the carbons.

Answer 2

A triple bond is a type of covalent bond. It involves a sigma bond and two pi bonds (each bond involves 2 electrons).

A carbon atom is capable of 4 bonds...a carbon-carbon triple bond is found in all alkynes. The carbon atoms in an alkyne bond are sp hybridized. They each have 2 p orbidals and 2 sp hybrid orbitals.
Each p orbital on one carbon atom overlaps one on the other, forming the pi bonds, while the sp orbital forms the sigma bond. The bond strength is pretty high (837 kJ/mol). The simplest alkyne is ethyne (acetylene), HC2H.

The entry for alkynes in wikipedia will give better detail.

Answer 3

A carbon-carbon triple bond is a bond in which two carbon atoms share 3 covalent bonds between themselves and 1 covalent bond each with a hydrogen atom. This way each carbon will have 6 electrons and be sharing another 4, thus filling its valence shell.

Answer 4

A C≡ C triple bond consists of three bonds---ONE sigma bond and TWO pi bonds. The geometry of this bond is linear.

Each C of this pair is still able to bond with another atom, C or H , etc, sot that each C will have an octet number of shared electrons in the valence shell, affording stability.

Answer 5

Triple bonds indicate an Alkyne i.e. an unsaturated hydrocarbon molecule.

H - C ≡ C - H

C2H2 = Acetylene. Note that each Carbon keeps its four bonds.

Answer 6

A triple bond is a chemical bond involving six bonding electrons instead of the usual two in a covalent single bond.

Answer 7

It means that two carbon atoms are sharing 3 electrons with each other. So they each have one other place to accept an electron.

(Were you looking for something more detailed?)

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-carbon_bond