What is carbon used for?
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The mineral graphite is made up entirely of carbon atoms. Graphite is found in your pencil "lead". Many students tend to believe that pencils actually contain real lead. This is not true. They used to use real lead until everyone realized that it makes you sick.\n\nDiamonds are also made up completely of carbon. It was just luckier than graphite. It went under lots of heat & pressure for a very long time. Why is this lucky? Because it turned into a diamond. Diamonds are used for jewelry of course but crushed diamonds are also used on the ends of drill bits. This is because diamonds are the hardest of all minerals. Diamond drill tips can drill through any type of rock.\n\nGood luck with the report!
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if they char in the oven, that's carbon
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Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H), and Oxygen (O)
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Water, nitrogen and carbon.
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Carbon exists in all organic organisms and forms the basis for all life on Earth.  Carbon is the key element in the carbon cycle, which includes among other things, carbon dioxide, a necessary greenhouse gas.  Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is thought to contribute to global warming.
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Combustion of organic materials results in carbon rich solution. This means if you burn wood, petroleum, or cute little animals you get carbon, if you burn plastic you get a hunk of melted plastic.
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made of primarily carbon > organic\nanswer C.
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You could consider reporting on the soon to be widespread use of CF (carbon fiber) to build giant airplanes and automobiles.  CF weighs much less than aluminum or steel and is stronger.  Reducing weight will save on fuel and will help enable the oncoming hydrogen/fuelcell cars.  CF also must be used in the larger wind turbine blades (about 300 ft in diameter) because it is light enough yet stiff enough to avoid bending and hitting the tower.  Also carbon nanotubes will provide the strongest CF if the cost can be reduced.
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graphite and diamond are allotropes of carbon.This is one of the unique properties of carbon.
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Probably carbon latice structures, like buckeyballs or nanotubes.  These could then contain the smaller compounds that are doing the desired work.
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Carbon dioxide is used by the plant to produce glucose in the dark reactions of photosynthesis.  Without carbon dioxide the plants would be rather usless in the food chain.\n\n\nAll answers are correct.  Producers are the source of food for the next trophic level up.  Energy transfer is about 10% from level to level, with the rest going off as heat.  It would be bad news if there were more organisms above the others in the pyramid.  this would help lead to total extinction of life as we know it.
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calcium carbonate...\n\ncalcium and carbon....
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The reason carbon is classified as a metalloid is that some organic compounds from with carbon molecules will conduct electricity.  These compound usually consist of benzene rings.  In these rings the carbons are unsaturated so they have double bonds.  These double bonds consist of electrons that can move around the benzene ring.\nGraphite is a good example of carbon as a conductor.  Graphite is sheets and sheets of these benzene molecules attached together (see the link provided).  This material is used in many motors and many be referred to as a brush.
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Several points can be made but two will suffice for now.\n\n1. Carbon based does not only apply to humans but to every part of the biosphere (living part of the environment). Our whole ecosystem is based on carbon!\n\n2. Carbon IS as essential to life as Oxygen. What is the gas we give off when we exhale? CARBON dioxide! We must take in carbon to passit out.\n\nOur bodies "burn" sugars to get the energy our bodies neen to run. Guess what the main element in sugar is? Yes, you're right! CARBON! Carbon is in every cell of our bobies.
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carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
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CO2 emmisions really impact the carbon cycle in nature.\n\nIn the human body, it is influenced by smoking, poor diet, exercise, etc.
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Charcoal = activated carbon solid\nit is an active surface and reacts with almost anything. We use them in gloveboxes to allow air to circulate and not poisoning ourselves.\nEventually the charcoal wil become deactivated as there are no more active sites