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Carbon never shows coordination number greater than four while other members of carbon family show coordination number as high as six - explain.

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`to` Carbon never shows co-ordination number greater than four because of absence of d-orbitals . in carbon atom.
`to` The other members of carbon family show co-ordination number as high as six because of availability of.d-orbitals.
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