This is the third part of a story told to me by a Carbon atom in my brain. It started with her tale of how she ended up on earth, followed by an inside view of the Carbon cycle. So like I said, I’ve fallen into this pattern of cycling around different places, occasionally going underground… Continue reading Story of an atom: diamond
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Story of an atom: Carbon cycling
This is the second part of a story told to me by a Carbon atom in my brain. It started with her tale of how she ended up on earth. You know those places where young humans go and sit by the water in the sun? There’s a lot of ‘chemistry’ goes on, am I… Continue reading Story of an atom: Carbon cycling
Story of an atom: birth to earth
A voice – soft and scratchy, like the sound of a pencil on paper – started speaking in my head. It claimed to be a Carbon atom and started telling me about the amazing journeys it’s taken over billions of years. I started writing down what it was saying and I’ve added some of my… Continue reading Story of an atom: birth to earth