Are you ready for some action?
\nWhat’ll bring ya satisfaction:
\nSome carbon composite,
\nSet in a golden ring?
\nOr, a certificate of deposit,
\nBaring interest?<\/p>\n
Are you ready for gratification,
\nWhy not spare the carbon,
\nFrom an inanimate thing,
\nInstead,
\nBefore you’re dead…
\nConsider your very being?
\nAfter all,
\nYou’ve been,
\nCarbon.
\nAll your life,
\nYou depend,
\nWe all,
\nHave been,
\nA carbon,
\nComposite,
\nIt’s our code,
\nOf living.<\/p>\n
Why be catastrophic,
\nTo allotropic,
\nForcing uniform,
\nForcing the norm,
\nLet us exist,
\nIn more than one form!
\nLet’s get is straight,
\nAbout our substrate,
\nWe’re but a minor element,
\nOf the Earth’s crust,
\nYet, we’ve spent,
\nThe entire trust.<\/p>\n
Abundant,
\nYet, abandoned,
\nOf judgement.<\/p>\n
Been carbon,
\nNow… I’m just a has been.<\/p>\n
NOTES
\nFrom Florida State University
\nCarbon is a nonmetallic chemical element, one of the five chemical elements that make up Group IVa of the periodic table. Elemental carbon is actually a minor component of the Earth’s crust, but it is one of the more abundant elements in the universe. Only hydrogen, helium, oxygen, neon, and nitrogen are more abundant.<\/p>\n
This element is essential to life, its atoms forming the substrate for all the major molecules that life on Earth possible, including sugars, proteins, fats, and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecular structure that carries the genetic code of living organisms.<\/p>\n
Carbon is allotropic, that is, it exists in more than one form: amorphous carbon such as charcoal, coal, and coke; crystals such as graphite and diamonds; and fullerenes, a soccer ball-like arrangement of carbon atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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