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The importance of carbon seems to be immense, in spite of small amount of carbon available in nature. Comment. |
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Answer» Food, clothes, medicines, books or many of the things are all based on versatile element carbon. In addition, all living structures are carbon based. The amount of carbon present in the earth’s crust and in the atmosphere is quite meagre. The earth’s crust has only 0.02% carbon in the form of minerals (like carbonates, hydrogen-carbonates, coal and petroleum) and the atmosphere has 0.03% of carbon dioxide. In spite of this small amount of carbon available in nature, it is available in the form of hydrocarbon such as fossil fuel, methane gas and crude oil. Carbon fibres have multiple uses since they are strong, yet light weight, durable material. These fibres are used in making tennis rackets, fishing rods, even aeroplane and rockets. The industrial diamonds are used for drilling and cutting rocks. Carbon cycle, carbon dating, greenhouse effect, all are life sustaining processes on earth. |
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