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 ...

This means carbon is an element close elementA pure substance which is made from only one type of atom. Elements are listed on the periodic table.. Carbon atoms are arranged in a regular pattern ...

The periodic table captures a subtle pattern that runs ... If you have 12 protons, that’s carbon. As you keep adding protons, you find that similar properties recur in every 8th element.

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...