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Group IV elements exhibit varying properties down the group due to changes in bonding and structure. Carbon and silicon form giant covalent networks while tin and lead have metallic structures. Oxides show increasing ionic character, basicity, and stability of the +2 oxidation state. Melting points decrease as structures change from covalent networks to metallic. Silicates are important minerals formed from linking silicon-oxygen tetrahedra in chains, sheets, or 3D networks.

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