Carbon's big drawback is that it's very happy to absorb deuterium and tritium.
It's so powerful that it crushes the graphite into carbon's three-dimensional crystalline form, diamond.
How these are formed confers different physical attributes, just as carbon's characteristics change from pencil-mark graphite to sparkling diamond.
Given carbon's importance in the economy, similar fluctuations could significantly affect everything from inflation to consumer spending.
Similarly, distillation of liquefied carbon monoxide through several kilometres of piping yields a residue enriched in the heavier of carbon's two stable isotopes, 13C.
The distributor that supplies Mr. James with his Texas-shaped irons and helps give the people of Fort Worth a Texas-shaped breakfast is Carbon's Golden Malted.
Makers of golf clubs, tennis rackets, fishing rods and bicycle frames increasingly take advantage of carbon's high strength and low weight.
AR Carbon's carbon prophet, a government-funded project, helps farmers and landowners sell captured carbon to companies that want to offset their own emissions.
