China, India, Egypt, Sumeria
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Carbon
- Organic chemistry
- is defined as the chemistry
- of carbon compounds.
- All known life-forms
- plant and animal
- are made with carbon.
Atomic number 6
- Neolithic people
- carved ornaments from coal
- in the Shenyang area of China.
- People in India found
- diamonds in alluvial deposits
- and related them to Indra’s thunderbolt.
- The civilizations
- in Egypt and Sumeria
- used coal and charcoal.
Forms of carbon
- Soot, charcoal, coal, coke,
- atomic and diatomic carbon,
- carbine-derived carbon,
- diamond and vitreous carbon,
- coal tar, carbon black, carbon dioxide,
- water gas, carborundum or silicon carbide,
- graphite, graphene, buckminsterfullerene,
- carbon nanotube, nanobud, and nanofoam,
- and carbon fibre,
- viruses, archaea, bacteria,
- and eukaryotes which include
- protozoa, plants,
- algae, fungi, slime molds,
- and animals such as us,
- all have something in common.
- Enough said?
Carbon is among the earliest elements recognized and among the latest to have newly discovered allotropes.
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