CARBON

HISTORY

• Ancient civilizations discovered it in charcoal and soot.
• Recognized as an element in the 17th century.

NAME

• Derives from the latin word carbo.
• Carbo means charcoal or coal.

SYMBOL

PROPERTIES

• Melts at 6,442 F
• Boils at 6,917 F
• Reacts with oxygen
• Crystalline Structure
• Carbon comes in many forms with different properties

COST

ATOM

USES

PENCIL LEAD

• Graphite is a soft greasy substance
• Graphite is mixed with clay.
• Weak graphite layers slide over each other and leave marks.

CARBON FIBER

• Made of many different small strands of carbon.
• Used in cars, sports equipment, and aeronotics.

CARBON DATING

• Carbon-14
• Radioactive form
• Carbon-14 is in every living thing
• When something dies the Carbon-14 starts to decay.
• It a ratio between Carbon-12 and Carbon-14

SOURCES

WHERE?

• Atmosphere
• Lithospher
• Hydrosphere
• Biosphert
• Found almost everywhere

LEADING COUNTRIES

• Austria
• Brazil
• Canada
• China
• Germany

SOURCE

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