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Hello 2019: Year of the Periodic Table. Let’s talk about: Carbon at Science Space (Posted Jan 8th 2019)
Here at Science Space we are excited to announce that 2019 is the United Nations International Year of the Periodic Table. To celebrate, we will be focusing on one element a month until the end of the year. First off, here’s something we’d be super dead without: Carbon.
Carbon is a weird element that binds to nearly anything, making it the fourth most abundant element on the Earth. It’s so plentiful that it’s actually easier to list the materials that don’t contain carbon than do.
You can find it in the food you eat, your protein, amino acids, carbohydrates, your hair and fingernails. Without carbon, you would not exist. And then how would you visit Science Space?!
But there are some other things carbon does that you might not know about. In honour of Jurassic January here at Science Space, we’ll start with Carbon dating and dinosaurs!
To read more click here!
Science Space is a not-for-profit organisation at the University of Wollongong. All work presented here is my own, created while employed as an Experience Officer, with edits by Meg Gibson.
