You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Any chemist could talk for days about carbon. It is after all an ...

An element’s chemical symbol is a single capital letter or a capital letter followed by a lower case letter. What is carbon? Find out about the structure and properties of the element carbon.

Sometimes these elements are unwanted; other times they're intentionally added. Carbon (C): Carbon, a nonmetallic element, forms a number of organic and inorganic compounds and can be found in ...

Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team Carbon, the building block of life on Earth, owes its existence to the fiery crucibles of stars. Alongside elements like oxygen and iron, carbon is forged in the ...