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Carbon - School Essays

Carbon

Without the element of , life as we know it would not exist.
provides the framework for all tissues of plants and animals. They are
built of elements grouped around chains or rings made of atoms.
also provides common fuels--coal, oil, gasoline, and natural gas. Sugar, starch,
and paper are compounds of carbon with hydrogen and oxygen. Proteins such as
hair, meat, and silk contain these and other elements such as nitrogen,
phosphorus, and sulfur.

More than six and a half million compounds of the element carbon, many
times more then those of any other element, are known, and more are discovered
and synthesized each week. Hundreds of carbon compounds are commercially
important but the ...

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