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What the fuck is the deal with carbon

Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 08:30:48 2021 No.12550658 View Reply Original Report

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>carbon dating
>carbon copy
>carbon footprint
Why is carbon used in so many things? Why is carbon so special? Why not hydrogren or anything else. What makes carbon so vital to everything in existence?

I dont get it

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 2021 08:32:01 No.12550659 Report

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Its the mary sue of elements

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 2021 08:38:01 No.12550665 Report

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>>12550658
what a garbage ass thread, I'll give you a reply in good faith nontheless.
>hydrogen dating
what is the half-life a proton, lol?
also the half-lives of deuterium and tritium are really short, so dating with these aren't really useful.
you can do dating with other elements and need to if you want to date things older than ~5 half-lives of C14.
>carbon footprint
if you are interested in how much CO2 is in the atmosphere and how it got there...

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 2021 08:40:45 No.12550674 Report

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>>12550665
>what is the half-life a proton, lol?
>also the half-lives of deuterium and tritium are really short, so dating with these aren't really useful.
>you can do dating with other elements and need to if you want to date things older than ~5 half-lives of C14.
i understood like 10% of the things you said here

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 2021 08:55:27 No.12550701 Report

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>what is organic chemistry

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 2021 09:08:18 No.12550721 Report

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>>12550658
>Why is carbon used in so many things?
> Why is carbon so special?
It can form stable bonds. It can form bonds with many elements. Hydrocarbons store alot of energy in the bonds so they are a good fuel source.
>Why not hydrogen or anything else.
Hydrogen usually will only form one bond with other elements whereas carbon can form many. Other elements don't have desirable properties like carbon does. Some people like to postulate silicon based lifeforms under the right conditions but no one has found them.
>What makes carbon so vital to everything in existence?
Its just a good building block atom essentially.

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 2021 09:18:27 No.12550739 Report

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>>12550658
Carbon atomic number is six.

Six is the first perfect number.

God also created the world in six days.

>Why is carbon so special?
It's literally just numerology.

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 2021 13:44:09 No.12551206 Report

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>>12550658
It's common, because it's a direct product of the Bethe–Weizsäcker cycle, which is dominant in stars with 30% more mass than the sun and above.

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jan 2021 20:27:16 No.12552372 Report

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>>12550658
Anti monopol section of goverment is doing something with that.

Prepare for artificial life form, because carbon has monopol on it.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Jan 2021 02:41:09 No.12553338 Report

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>>12550658
Essentially it boils down to carbon can bond to itself and form very stable chains. It has something to do with its unique electron orbitals

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Anonymous Thu 07 Jan 2021 12:00:09 No.12554096 Report

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>>12550658
>>carbon dating
Uses an isotope of carbon (Carbon-14; C-14) to compare relative ages of objects
>>carbon copy
In common vernacular, this term is meant to define a duplicate. The common use of the term doesn't relate to chemistry.
>>carbon footprint
Carbon dioxide emissions.

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Anonymous Thu 07 Jan 2021 16:40:03 No.12554652 Report

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>>12550674
Carbon dating is working with radioactive carbon. Radioactive carbon builds into living things as they ingest it, and it's concentration is constant in it why they live. As soon as they die, they won't ingest anymore radioactive carbon, and the carbon starts to decay. The quantity of carbon halves every 5730 years (that's the half-life). If you can measure how much radioactive carbon remained compared to a fresh fossil, you can calculate how old the fossil is.
Deuterium is a stable atom, so it's not decaying. Tritium's half-life is around 12 years, so you can't date really old things (but I guess you could date a wine of bottle).

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