Carbon of interconnecting carbon–carbon bonds, a property that is called catenation. Carbon-carbon bonds are strong and stable. Through catenation, carbon forms a countless number of compounds. A tally of unique compounds shows that more contain carbon that those that do not. A similar claim can be made for hydrogen because most organic compounds also contain hydrogen. The simplest form of an organic molecule is the hydrocarbon—a large family of organic molecules that are composed of hydrogen atoms bonded to a chain of carbon atoms. A hydrocarbon backbone can be substituted by other atoms, known as heteroatoms. Common heteroatoms that appear in
Mina (given name) eyes), and is commonly used by South Indian Hindus. Nasrani Christians from Kerala and Parsees might use this name due to their ancient Persian heritage (Mina is a commonly used female name in Iran). See Meena (disambiguation) Mina is a Japanese feminine given name. It may be written various ways in kanji, including , , and . Mina, Meena, and Minah are various Roman alphabet spellings of two homophonous Korean feminine given names with different hangul spellings. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. For the name Min-a (민아), there are 27