The answer, of course, is that Pieter is talking about carbon particles (aerosols, often called black carbon) and the post is talking
about carbon atoms in principally CO2, but also methane and organic volatile moleclues.
Cool beans but why the heck should I care
about carbon atoms?
I had a dream last night
about carbon atoms.
Not exact matches
I have no idea how you would go
about finding all the possible «tracings» for a
carbon atom, but I think you'd need a stack of graph paper and some sort of computer program?
Were there not a certain invariance
about the way in which
carbon atoms bond with others under identical conditions, or
about the manner in which protein synthesis is charted and activated by nucleic acids, life would be impossible altogether.
Just talk a little bit
about how this particular
carbon atom that you've named Dave travels around the globe and what kind of adventures it has as a member of the biosphere, or, you know, occasionally not in the biosphere.
Volk: Yeah, okay, so this was suggested by a friend of mine, because in our previous book Gaia's Body I had just [a] three or four paragraph description
about [a]
carbon atom's travels, and he said, «Why don't you have this in the new book?»
The
carbon atoms are arranged in hexagons and a typical tube measures
about 1.2 to 30 nanometres in diameter and around a micrometre long.
The nanomaterial is composed of a single layer of
carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal chicken - wire pattern, and all the
atoms share a cloud of electrons moving freely
about the surface.
«As a result of screening
about 200 compounds, we found that (3 - furyl) diphenylmethane (chem7), which is a triarylmethane that contains 2 phenyl groups and a furyl (a 5 - membered aromatic ring containing 4
carbons and an oxygen
atom in the ring) group, had strong inhibitory activity on plant cell division,» says Ueda.
The process is then followed by high temperature activation annealing (
about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius) to form a honeycomb lattice of
carbon atoms, a typical microscopic structure of graphene.
While the plant can theoretically convert just
about anything with a
carbon atom, CWT has tuned its process to consume the turkey feathers, guts, heads, blood, and other by - products from a nearby Butterball processing plant.
It's not clear what, if anything, this can teach us
about real molecules, but Pine already has an application in mind: linking up several surrogate
carbon atoms to create a «semiconductor» for light.
This work, he said, resulted in the most precise and controlled measurements of these interactions ever made, «and will allow scientists to learn new things
about the interplay of
atoms and molecules with a
carbon surface,» important for improving technologies including batteries, electrodes and air filters.
A single layer of
carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice, graphene membranes can be made a little as
about 0.5 nanometers thick but have their own disadvantages to be addressed.
It has a half - life of
about 5,730 years, after which
about half of the
carbon - 14
atoms in the original sample will have decayed away.
«Each
carbon atom that you put in the ocean stays there for
about 100,000 years,» Plike explains.
When mixed and annealed, the tetrahedral arrays formed superlattices with long - range order where the positions of the gold nanoparticles mimics the arrangement of
carbon atoms in a lattice of diamond, but at a scale
about 100 times larger.
When asked
about the connections between C60 and
carbon fibres, they discussed the possibility of adding rings of ten
carbon atoms to elongate the football to become C70.
At this time, researchers at Exxon were studying the properties of
carbon clusters up to
about 15
atoms.
Radio -
carbon - dating Synonyms, Radio -
carbon Because atmospheric
carbon 14 arises at
about the same rate that the
atom decays.
The company's technology is based
about HiPCOT single - walled
carbon nanotubes, and using these material
Atom developed fully - printed CNT - TFT backplanes for AMOLED displays.
Since
carbon has heavier
atom than the hydrogen
atom (
about 12 times heavier) the bulk of the gasoline mass is
carbon.
When CH4 turns into CO2, the forcing caused by that
carbon atom is divided by
about 25, not > 70!
How
about a graphene layer, that is a single
atom thick solid; can it emit a black body like (
carbon is black) thermal spectrum.
The time it takes for a
carbon atom to make it out of this recycling system and to get into the deep ocean is
about 100 years.