Carbon
| Basic: |
| Carbon is a type of non-metallic element. |
| Documentation: |
| Comment: A piece of carbon; here on Earth, this is of course usually a solid, but it needn't necessarily be. |
| Structure: |
| Some carbon is a constituent of all steel and all gunpowder. |
| Every organic compound has some carbon as a proper physical part. |
| Miscellaneous: |
| A diamond, wood coal, and graphite are a type of carbon. |
| A possible valence of carbon is 4 and -4. |
| 4 and 2 are possible oxidation numbers for carbon. |
| The atomic number of carbon is 6. |
| The atomic weight of carbon is 12.0107 atomic mass units. Every carbon metabolic event destroyed some carbon. Carbon 14 is isotopes of carbon. |