What is elements of Group 14?

• Group 14 contain five elements, namely, Carbon, Silicon, Germanium, Tin, Lead.
• Carbon is essential constituent of all organic matter.
• Silicon is an important constituent of inorganic matter.
• Carbon and Silicon are typical non-metals.  
• Germanium has intermediate character while tin and lead are distinctly metals.
• Carbon occurs hardly 0.1 per cent in the earth's crust.
• Silicon occurs most abundantly, next only to oxygen, upto about 26 per cent in the earth's crust, as silica and silicates.
• Germanium occurs rather sparsely.
• Tin occurs chiefly an SnO2 in its ore known as tin stone while lead occurs as PbS in its ore known as galena.