Which of the following best describes a possible carbon compound?

Carbon typically forms four covalent bonds. In choice B, carbon has a double bond to oxygen (two bonds) and single bonds to two hydrogen atoms (two more), for four bonds total. The other choices give carbon too many bonds: four in addition to another carbon would exceed its usual valence in A, and five bonds in C or a triple plus a double bond in D would make five bonds.

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