The covalent bonding behaviour of carbon is the mainstay of organic chemistry, but in some compounds carbon seems to behave more like a metal.
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Dyker, C., Bertrand, G. Rethinking carbon. Nature Chem 1, 265–266 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.265
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