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07-SEPTEMBER-2008 03:17:44 - Carbon For other uses, see Carbon disambiguation. 6 boron â†? carbon → nitrogen - ↑ C ↓ Si Carbon in the periodic table of the elements Periodic table - Extended periodic table General Name, symbol, number carbon, C, 6 Chemical series nonmetals Group, period, block 14, 2, p Appearance black graphite colorless diamond Standard atomic weight 12.01078 g·mol-1 Electron configuration 1s2 2s2 2p2 Electrons per shell 2, 4 Physical properties Phase solid Density near r.t. graphite 1.9-2.31 g·cm-3 Density near r.t. diamond 3.5-3.531 g·cm-3 Density near r.t. fullerene 1.691 g·cm-3 Heat of fusion graphite ? 100 kJ·mol-1 Heat of fusion diamond ? 120 kJ·mol-1 Heat of vaporization 715 kJ·mol-1 Specific heat capacity 25 °C graphite 8.517 J·mol-1·K-1 Specific heat capacity 25 °C diamond 6.115 J·mol-1·K-1 Vapor pressure graphite P/Pa 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k at T/K 2839 3048 3289 3572 3908 Atomic properties Crystal structure graphite hexagonal Oxidation states 4, 3 2, 2, 1 3, 0, -1, -2, -3, -44 mildly acidic oxide Electronegativity 2.55 Pauling scale Ionization energies more 1st: 1086.5 kJ·mol-1 2nd: 2352.6 kJ·mol-1 3rd: 4620.5 kJ·mol-1 Atomic radius 70 pm Atomic radius calc. 67 pm Covalent radius 77 pm Van der Waals radius 170 pm Miscellaneous Magnetic ordering diamagnetic Electrical resistivity graphite 1.37510-5 5Ω·m Thermal conductivity 300 K graphite 80-230 W·m-1·K-1 Thermal conductivity 300 K diamond 900-2320 W·m-1·K-1 Thermal diffusivity 300 K diamond 503-1300 mm²/s Mohs hardness graphite 1-2 6 Mohs hardness diamond 10.0 6 CAS registry number 7440-44-0 Selected isotopes Main article: Isotopes of carbon iso NA half-life DM DE MeV DP 15 12C 98.9% 12C is stable with 6 neutrons 13C 1.1% 13C is stable with 7 neutrons 14C trace 5730 y beta- 0.156 14N References This box: view talk Carbon pronounced /kɑɹbÉ™n/ is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number is 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalent-making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. There are three naturally occurring isotopes, with 12C and 13C being stable, while 14C is radioactive, decaying with a half-life of about 5700 years.7 Carbon is one of the few elements known to man since antiquity.89 The name carbon comes from Latin language carbo, coal, and, in some Romance languages, the word carbon can refer both to the element and to coal. There are several allotropes of carbon of which the best known are graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon.10 The physical properties of carbon vary widely with the allotropic form. For example, diamond is highly transparent, while graphite is opaque and black. Diamond is among the hardest materials known, while graphite is soft enough to form a streak on paper. Diamond has a very low electric conductivity, while graphite is a very good conductor. Also, diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of all known materials under normal conditions. All the allotropic forms are solids under normal conditions but graphite is the most thermodynamically stable. All forms of carbon are highly stable, requiring high temperature to react even with oxygen. The most common oxidation state of carbon in inorganic compounds is +4, while +2 is found in carbon monoxide and other transition metal carbonyl complexes. The largest sources of inorganic carbon are limestones, dolomites and carbon dioxide, but significant quantities occur in organic deposits of coal, peat, oil and methane clathrates. Carbon forms more compounds than any other element, with almost ten million pure organic compounds described to date, which in turn are a tiny fraction of such compounds that are theoretically possible under standard conditions.11 Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. It is present in all known lifeforms, and in the human body, carbon is the second most abundant element by mass about 18.5% after oxygen.12 This abundance, together with the unique diversity of organic compounds and their unusual polymer-forming ability at the temperatures commonly encountered on Earth, make this element the chemical basis of all known life. Contents 1 Characteristics 1.1 Allotropes 1.2 Occurrence 1.3 Isotopes 1.4 Formation in stars 1.5 Carbon cycle 2 Compounds 2.1 Inorganic compounds 2.2 Organic compounds 3 History and etymology 3.1 Applications 4 Production 4.1 Graphite Production 5 Precautions 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Characteristics The different forms or allotropes of carbon see below include the hardest naturally occurring substance, diamond, and also one of the softest known substances, graphite. Moreover, it has an affinity for bonding with other small atoms, including other carbon atoms, and is capable of forming multiple stable covalent bonds with such atoms. As a result, carbon is known to form nearly ten million different compounds; the large majority of all chemical compounds.11 Carbon also has the highest melting and sublimation point of all elements.citation needed At atmospheric pressure it has no actual melting point as its triple point is at 10 MPa 100 bar so it sublimates above 4000 K.citation needed Carbon sublimes in a carbon arc which has a temperature of about 5800K. Thus, irrespective of its allotropic form, carbon remains solid at higher temperatures than the highest melting point metals such as tungsten or rhenium. Although thermodynamically prone to oxidation, carbon resists oxidation more effectively than elements such as iron and copper that are weaker reducing agents at room temperature. Diamond and graphite are two allotropes of carbon: pure forms of the same element that differ in structure. Diamond and graphite are two allotropes of carbon: pure forms of the same element that differ in structure. Carbon compounds form the basis of all life on Earth and the carbon-nitrogen cycle provides some of the energy produced by the Sun and other stars. Although it forms an extraordinary variety of compounds, most forms of carbon are comparatively unreactive under normal conditions. At standard temperature and pressure, it resists all but the strongest oxidizers. It does not react with sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, chlorine or any alkalis. At elevated temperatures carbon reacts with oxygen to form carbon oxides, and will reduce such metal oxides as iron oxide to the metal. This exothermic reaction is used in the iron and steel industry to control the carbon content of steel: Fe3O4 + 4Cs → 3Fes + 4COg with sulfur to form carbon disulfide and with steam in the coal-gas reaction Cs + H2Og → COg + H2g. Carbon combines with some metals at high temperatures to form metallic carbides, such as the iron carbide cementite in steel, and tungsten carbide, widely used as an abrasive and for making hard tips for cutting tools. Graphene, which occurs naturally in graphite, is the strongest substance known to man, according to a study released in August 2008 by Columbia University. However, the process of separating it from graphite will require some technological development before it is economical enough to be used in industrial processes. 13 The system of carbon allotropes spans a range of extremes: Synthetic diamond nanorods are the hardest materials known. Graphite is one of the softest materials known. Diamond is the ultimate abrasive. Graphite is a very good lubricant. Diamond is an excellent electrical insulator. Graphite is a conductor of electricity. Diamond is the best known thermal conductor Some forms of graphite are used for thermal insulation i.e. firebreaks and heatshields Diamond is highly transparent. Graphite is opaque. Diamond crystallizes in the cubic system. Graphite crystallizes in the hexagonal system. Amorphous carbon is completely isotropic. Carbon nanotubes are among the most anisotropic materials ever produced. Allotropes Main article: Allotropes of carbon Atomic carbon is a very short-lived species and therefore, carbon is stabilized in various multi-atomic structures with different molecular configurations called allotropes. The three relatively well-known allotropes of carbon are amorphous carbon, graphite, and diamond. Once considered exotic, fullerenes are nowadays commonly synthesized and used in research; they include buckyballs,1415 carbon nanotubes,16 carbon nanobuds17 and nanofibers18.19 Several other exotic allotropes have also been discovered, such as aggregated diamond nanorods,20 lonsdaleite,21 glassy carbon,22 carbon nanofoam23 and linear acetylenic carbon.24 The amorphous form, is an assortment of carbon atoms in a non-crystalline, irregular, glassy state, which is essentially graphite but not held in a crystalline macrostructure. It is present as a powder, and is the main constituent of substances such as charcoal, lampblack soot and activated carbon. At normal pressures carbon takes the form of graphite, in which each atom is bonded trigonally to three others in a plane composed of fused hexagonal rings, just like those in aromatic hydrocarbons. The resulting network is 2-dimensional, and the resulting flat sheets are stacked and loosely bonded through weak Van der Waals forces. This gives graphite its softness and its cleaving properties the sheets slip easily past one another. Because of the delocalization of one of the outer electrons of each atom to form a Ï€-cloud, graphite conducts electricity, but only in the plane of each covalently bonded sheet. This results in a lower bulk electrical conductivity for carbon than for most metals. The delocalization also accounts for the energetic stability of graphite over diamond at room temperature. Some allotropes of carbon: a diamond; b graphite; c lonsdaleite; d-f fullerenes C60, C540, C70; g amorphous carbon; h carbon nanotube. Some allotropes of carbon: a diamond; b graphite; c lonsdaleite; d-f fullerenes C60, C540, C70; g amorphous carbon; h carbon nanotube. At very high pressures carbon forms the more compact allotrope diamond, having nearly twice the density of graphite. Here, each atom is bonded tetrahedrally to four others, thus making a 3-dimensional network of puckered six-membered rings of atoms. Diamond has the same cubic structure as silicon and germanium and, thanks to the strength of the carbon-carbon bonds is the hardest naturally occurring substance in terms of resistance to scratching. Contrary to the popular belief that diamonds are forever, they are in fact thermodynamically unstable under normal conditions and transform into graphite.10 But due to a high activation energy barrier, the transition into graphite is so extremely slow at room temperature as to be unnoticeable. Under some conditions, carbon crystallizes as lonsdaleite. This form is similar to diamond but has a hexagonal crystal lattice.21 Fullerenes have a graphite-like structure, but instead of purely hexagonal packing, they also contain pentagons or even heptagons of carbon atoms, which bend the sheet into spheres, ellipses or cylinders. The properties of fullerenes split into buckyballs, buckytubes and nanobuds have not yet been fully analyzed and represents an intense area of research in nanomaterials. The name fullerene is given after Richard Buckminster Fuller, developer of some geodesic domes,citation needed which resemble the structure of fullerenes. The buckyballs are fairly large molecules formed completely of carbon bonded trigonally, forming spheroids the best-known and simplest is the soccerball-shaped structure C60 buckminsterfullerene.14 Carbon nanotubes are structurally similar to buckyballs, except that each atom is bonded trigonally in a curved sheet that forms a hollow cylinder.1516 Nanobuds were first published in 2007 and are hybrid bucky tube/buckyball materials buckyballs are covalently bonded to the outer wall of a nanotube that combine the properties of both in a single structure.17 Of the other discovered allotropes, aggregated diamond nanorods were synthesised in 2005 and are believed to be the hardest substance known yet.25 Carbon nanofoam is a ferromagnetic allotrope discovered in 1997. It consists of a low-density cluster-assembly of carbon atoms strung together in a loose three-dimensional web, in which the atoms are bonded trigonally in six- and seven-membered rings. It is among the lightest known solids, with a density of about 2 kg/m³.26 Similarly, glassy carbon contains a high proportion of closed porosity.22 But unlike normal graphite, the graphitic layers are not stacked like pages in a book, but have a more random arrangement. Linear acetylenic carbon24 has the chemical structure27 -C:::Cn- .Carbon in this modification is linear with sp orbital hybridisation, and is a polymer with alternating single and triple bonds. This type of carbyne is of considerable interest to nanotechnology as its Young's modulus is forty times that of the hardest known material - diamond.28 Occurrence Graphite ore Graphite ore Raw diamond crystal. Raw diamond crystal. Carbon is the fourth most abundant chemical element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. Carbon is abundant in the Sun, stars, comets, and in the atmospheres of most planets. Some meteorites contain microscopic diamonds that were formed when the solar system was still a protoplanetary disk. Microscopic diamonds may also be formed by the intense pressure and high temperature at the sites of meteorite impacts.29 Present day 1990s sea surface dissolved inorganic carbon concentration from the GLODAP climatology Present day 1990s sea surface dissolved inorganic carbon concentration from the GLODAP climatology In combination with oxygen in carbon dioxide, carbon is found in the Earth's atmosphere in quantities of approximately 810 gigatonnes and dissolved in all water bodies approximately 36000 gigatonnes. Around 1900 gigatonnes are present in the biosphere. Hydrocarbons such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas contain carbon as well - coal reserves not resources amount to around 900 gigatonnes, and oil reserves around 150 gigatonnes. With smaller amounts of calcium, magnesium, and iron, carbon is a major component of very large masses carbonate rock limestone, dolomite, marble etc.. Coal is a significant commercial source of mineral carbon; anthracite containing 92-98% carboncitation needed and the largest source 4000 Gt, or 80% of coal, gas and oil reserves of carbon in a form suitable for use as fuel.30 Graphite is found in large quantities in New York and Texas, the United States, Russia, Mexico, Greenland, and India. Natural diamonds occur in the rock kimberlite, found in ancient volcanic necks, or pipes. Most diamond deposits are in Africa, notably in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, the Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone. There are also deposits in Arkansas, Canada, the Russian Arctic, Brazil and in Northern and Western Australia. Diamonds are now also being recovered from the ocean floor off the Cape of Good Hope. However, though diamonds are found naturally, about 30% of all industrial diamonds used in the U.S. are now made synthetically. According to studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an estimate of the global carbon budget is:citation needed Biosphere, oceans, atmosphere 0.45 x 1018 kilograms 3.7 x 1018 moles Crust Organic carbon 13.2 x 1018 kg Carbonates 62.4 x 1018 kg Mantle 1200 x 1018 kg Carbon-14 is formed in upper layers of the troposphere and the stratosphere, at altitudes of 9-15 km, by a reaction that is precipitated by cosmic rays. Thermal neutrons are produced that collide with the nuclei of nitrogen-14, forming carbon-14 and a proton. Isotopes Main article: Isotopes of carbon Isotopes of carbon are atomic nuclei that contain six protons plus a number of neutrons varying from 2 to 16. Carbon has two stable, naturally occurring isotopes.7 The isotope carbon-12 12C forms 98.93% of the carbon on Earth, while carbon-13 13C forms the remaining 1.07%.7 The concentration of 12C is further increased in biological materials because biochemical reactions discriminate against 13C.31 In 1961 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry IUPAC adopted the isotope carbon-12 as the basis for atomic weights.32 Identification of carbon in NMR experiments is done with the isotope 13C. Carbon-14 14C is a naturally occurring radioisotope which occurs in trace amounts on Earth of up to 1 part per trillion 0.0000000001%, mostly confined to the atmosphere and superficial deposits, particularly of peat and other organic materials.33 This isotope decays by 0.158 MeV β- emission. Because of its relatively short half-life of 5730 years, 14C is virtually absent in ancient rocks, but is created in the upper atmosphere lower stratosphere and upper troposphere by interaction of nitrogen with cosmic rays.34 The abundance of 14C in the atmosphere and in living organisms is almost constant, but decreases predictably in their bodies after death. This principle is used in radiocarbon dating, invented in 1949, which has been used extensively to determine the age of carbonaceous materials with ages up to about 40,000 years.3536 There are 15 known isotopes of carbon and the shortest-lived of these is 8C which decays through proton emission and alpha decay and has a half-life of 1.98739x10-21 s.37 The exotic 19C exhibits a nuclear halo, which means its radius is appreciably larger than would be expected if the nucleus was a sphere of constant density.38 Formation in stars Main articles: Triple-alpha process and CNO cycle Formation of the carbon atomic nucleus requires a nearly simultaneous triple collision of alpha particles helium nuclei within the core of a giant or supergiant star. This happens in conditions of temperature and helium concentration that the rapid expansion and cooling of the early universe prohibited, and therefore no significant carbon was created during the Big Bang. Instead, the interiors of stars in the horizontal branch transform three helium nuclei into carbon by means of this triple-alpha process. In order to be available for formation of life as we know it, this carbon must then later be scattered into space as dust, in supernova explosions, as part of the material which later forms second- and third-generation star systems which have planets accreted from such dust. The Solar System is one such third-generation star system. One of the fusion mechanisms powering stars is the carbon-nitrogen cycle. Rotational transitions of various isotopic forms of carbon monoxide e.g. 12CO, 13CO, and C18O are detectable in the submillimeter regime, and are used in the study of newly forming stars in molecular clouds. Carbon cycle Main article: Carbon cycle Diagram of the carbon cycle. The black numbers indicate how much carbon is stored in various reservoirs, in billions of tons GtC stands for gigatons of carbon; figures are circa 2004. The purple numbers indicate how much carbon moves between reservoirs each year. The sediments, as defined in this diagram, do not include the ~70 million GtC of carbonate rock and kerogen. Diagram of the carbon cycle. The black numbers indicate how much carbon is stored in various reservoirs, in billions of tons GtC stands for gigatons of carbon; figures are circa 2004. The purple numbers indicate how much carbon moves between reservoirs each year. The sediments, as defined in this diagram, do not include the ~70 million GtC of carbonate rock and kerogen. Under terrestrial conditions, conversion of one element to another is very rare. Therefore, the amount of carbon on Earth is effectively constant. Thus, processes that use carbon must obtain it somewhere and dispose of it somewhere else. The paths that carbon follows in the environment make up the carbon cycle. For example, plants draw carbon dioxide out of their environment and use it to build biomass, as in carbon respiration or the Calvin cycle, a process of carbon fixation. Some of this biomass is eaten by animals, whereas some carbon is exhaled by animals as carbon dioxide. The carbon cycle is considerably more complicated than this short loop; for example, some carbon dioxide is dissolved in the oceans; dead plant or animal matter may become petroleum or coal, which can burn with the release of carbon, should bacteria not consume it. Compounds Inorganic compounds Main article: Compounds of carbon Commonly carbon-containing compounds which are associated with minerals or which do not contain hydrogen or fluorine, are treated separately from classical organic compounds; however the definition is not rigid see reference articles above. Among these are the simple oxides of carbon. The most prominent oxide is carbon dioxide CO2. This was once the principal constituent of the paleoatmosphere, but is a minor component of the Earth's atmosphere today.39 Dissolved in water, it forms carbonic acid H2CO3, but as most compounds with multiple single-bonded oxygens on a single carbon it is unstable.citation needed Through this intermediate, though, resonance-stabilized carbonate ions are produced. Some important minerals are carbonates, notably calcite. Carbon disulfide CS2 is similar. The other common oxide is carbon monoxide CO. It is formed by incomplete combustion, and is a colorless, odorless gas. The molecules each contain a triple bond and are fairly polar, resulting in a tendency to bind permanently to hemoglobin molecules, displacing oxygen, which has a lower binding affinity.4041 Cyanide CN-, has a similar structure, but behaves much like a halide ion pseudohalogen. For example it can form the nitride cyanogen molecule CN2, similar to diatomic halides. Other uncommon oxides are carbon suboxide C3O2,42 the unstable dicarbon monoxide C2O,4344 and even carbon trioxide CO3.4546 With reactive metals, such as tungsten, carbon forms either carbides C4-, or acetylides C22- to form alloys with high melting points. These anions are also associated with methane and acetylene, both very weak acids. With an electronegativity of 2.5,47 carbon prefers to form covalent bonds. A few carbides are covalent lattices, like carborundum SiC, which resembles diamond. Organic compounds Main article: Organic compound Structural formula of methane, the simplest possible organic compound Structural formula of methane, the simplest possible organic compound Carbon has the ability to form very long chains interconnecting C-C bonds. This property is called catenation. Carbon-carbon bonds are strong, and stable.citation needed This property allows carbon to form an almost infinite number of compounds; in fact, there are more known carbon-containing compounds than all the compounds of the other chemical elements combined except those of hydrogen because almost all organic compounds contain hydrogen too. The simplest form of an organic molecule is the hydrocarbon-a large family of organic molecules that are composed of hydrogen atoms bonded to a chain of carbon atoms. Chain length, side chains and functional groups all affect the properties of organic molecules. By IUPAC's definition, all the other organic compounds are functionalized compounds of hydrocarbons.citation needed Carbon is the basis for all plastic materials that are used in common household items. Carbon is the basis for all plastic materials that are used in common household items. Carbon occurs in all organic life and is the basis of organic chemistry. When united with hydrogen, it forms various flammable compounds called hydrocarbons which are important to industry as chemical feedstock for the manufacture of plastics, petrochemicals and as fossil fuels. When combined with oxygen and hydrogen, carbon can form many groups of important biological compounds including sugars, celluloses, lignans, chitins, alcohols, fats, and aromatic esters, carotenoids and terpenes. With nitrogen it forms alkaloids, and with the addition of sulfur also it forms antibiotics, amino acids and proteins. With the addition of phosphorus to these other elements, it forms DNA and RNA, the chemical codes of life, and adenosine triphosphate ATP, the most important energy-transfer molecules in all living cells. History and etymology Please help improve this section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. January 2008 The English name carbon comes from the Latin carbo for coal and charcoal,48 and hence comes French charbon, meaning charcoal. In German, Dutch and Danish, the names for carbon are Kohlenstoff, koolstof and kulstof respectively, all literally meaning coal-substance. Carl Wilhelm Scheele Carl Wilhelm Scheele Antoine Lavoisier in his youth Antoine Lavoisier in his youth Carbon was discovered in prehistory and was known in the forms of soot and charcoal to the earliest human civilizations. Diamonds were known probably as early as 2500 BCE in China, while carbon in the forms of charcoal was made around Roman times by the same chemistry as it is today, by heating wood in a pyramid covered with clay to exclude air.4950 In 1722, René A. F. de Réaumur demonstrated that iron was transformed into steel through the absorption of some substance, now known to be carbon.51 In 1772, Antoine Lavoisier showed that diamonds are a form of carbon, when he burned samples of carbon and diamond then showed that neither produced any water and that both released the same amount of carbon dioxide per gram. Carl Wilhelm Scheele showed that graphite, which had been thought of as a form of lead, was instead a type of carbon.52 In 1786, the French scientists Claude Louis Berthollet, Gaspard Monge and C. A. Vandermonde then showed that this substance was carbon.53 In their publication they proposed the name carbone Latin carbonum for this element. Antoine Lavoisier listed carbon as an element in his 1789 textbook.54 A new allotrope of carbon, fullerene, that was discovered in 198555 includes nanostructured forms such as buckyballs and nanotubes.14 Their discoverers received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996.56 The resulting renewed interest in new forms, lead to the discovery of further exotic allotropes, including glassy carbon, and the realization that amorphous carbon is not strictly amorphous.22 Applications Pencil lead for mechanical pencils are made of graphite. Pencil lead for mechanical pencils are made of graphite. Sticks of vine and compressed charcoal. Sticks of vine and compressed charcoal. A cloth of woven carbon filaments A cloth of woven carbon filaments Silicon carbide single crystal Silicon carbide single crystal The C60 fullerene in crystalline form The C60 fullerene in crystalline form Tungsten carbide milling bits Tungsten carbide milling bits Carbon is essential to all known living systems, and without it life as we know it could not exist see alternative biochemistry. The major economic use of carbon other than food and wood is in the form of hydrocarbons, most notably the fossil fuel methane gas and crude oil petroleum. Crude oil is used by the petrochemical industry to produce, amongst others, gasoline and kerosene, through a distillation process, in refineries. Cellulose is a natural, carbon-containing polymer produced by plants in the form of cellulose, cotton, linen, hemp. Commercially valuable carbon polymers of animal origin include wool, cashmere and silk. Plastics are made from synthetic carbon polymers, often with oxygen and nitrogen atoms included at regular intervals in the main polymer chain. The raw materials for many of these synthetic substances come from crude oil. The uses of carbon and its compounds are extremely varied. It can form alloys with iron, of which the most common is carbon steel. Graphite is combined with clays to form the 'lead' used in pencils used for writing and drawing. It is also used as a lubricant and a pigment, as a moulding material in glass manufacture, in electrodes for dry batteries and in electroplating and electroforming, in brushes for electric motors and as a neutron moderator in nuclear reactors. Charcoal is used as a drawing material in artwork, for grilling, and in many other uses including iron smelting. Wood, coal and oil are used as fuel for production of energy and space heating. Gem quality diamond is used in jewelry, and Industrial diamonds are used in drilling, cutting and polishing tools for machining metals and stone. Plastics are made from fossil hydrocarbons, and carbon fibre, made by pyrolysis of synthetic polyester fibres is used to reinforce plastics to form advanced, lightweight composite materials. Carbon fiber is made by pyrolysis of extruded and stretched filaments of polyacrylonitrile PAN and other organic substances. The crystallographic structure and mechanical properties of the fiber depend on the type of starting material, and on the subsequent processing. Carbon fibres made from PAN have structure resembling narrow filaments of graphite, but thermal processing may re-order the structure into a continuous rolled sheetcitation needed. The result is fibers with higher specific tensile strength than steel.citation needed Carbon black is used as the black pigment in printing ink, artist's oil paint and water colours, carbon paper, automotive finishes, India ink and laser printer toner. Carbon black is also used as a filler in rubber products such as tyres and in plastic compounds. Activated charcoal is used as an absorbent and adsorbent in filter material in applications as diverse as gas masks, water purification and kitchen extractor hoods and in medicine to absorb toxins, poisons, or gases from the digestive system. Carbon is used in chemical reduction at high temperatures. coke is used to reduce iron ore into iron. Case hardening of steel is achieved by heating finished steel components in carbon powder. Carbides of silicon, tungsten, boron and titanium, are among the hardest known materials, and are used as abrasives in cutting and grinding tools. Carbon compounds make up most of the materials used in clothing, such as natural and synthetic textiles and leather, and almost all of the interior surfaces in the built environment other than glass, stone and metal. Production Please help improve this section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. December 2007 Graphite Production Commercially viable natural deposits of graphite occur in many parts of the world, but the most important sources economically are in China, India, Brazil, and North Korea.57 Graphite deposits are of metamorphic origin, found in association with quartz, mica and feldspars in schists, gneisses and metamorphosed sandstones and limestone as lenses or veins, sometimes of a metre or more in thickness. Deposits of graphite in Borrowdale, Cumberland, England were at first of sufficient size and purity that, until the 1800s, pencils were made simply by sawing blocks of natural graphite into strips before encasing the strips in wood. Today, smaller deposits of graphite are obtained by crushing the parent rock and floating the lighter graphite out on water. Precautions Pure carbon has extremely low toxicity and can be handled and even ingested safely in the form of graphite or charcoal. It is resistant to dissolution or chemical attack, even in the acidic contents of the digestive tract, for example. Consequently if it gets into body tissues it is likely to remain there indefinitely. Carbon black was probably one of the first pigments to be used for tattooing, and Ötzi the Iceman was found to have carbon tattoos that survived during his life and for 5200 years after his death.58 However, inhalation of coal dust or soot carbon black in large quantities can be dangerous, irritating lung tissues and causing the congestive lung disease coalworker's pneumoconiosis. Similarly, diamond dust used as an abrasive can do harm if ingested or inhaled. Microparticles of carbon are produced in diesel engine exhaust fumes, and may accumulate in the lungs.59 In these examples, the harmful effects may result from contamination of the carbon particles, with organic chemicals or heavy metals for example, rather than from the carbon itself. Carbon may also burn vigorously and brightly in the presence of air at high temperatures, as in the Windscale fire, which was caused by sudden release of stored Wigner energy in the graphite core. Large accumulations of coal, which have remained inert for hundred of millions of years in the absence of oxygen, may spontaneously combust when exposed to air, for example in coal mine waste tips. The great variety of carbon compounds include such lethal poisons as tetrodotoxin, the lectin ricin from seeds of the castor oil plant Ricinus communis, cyanide CN- and carbon monoxide; and such essentials to life as glucose and protein. See also Carbon chauvinism Carbon footprint Low-carbon economy Organic chemistry Timeline of carbon nanotubes References ^ a b c Allotropes of carbon:density ^ Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of the System of CP. Retrieved on 2007-12-06. ^ Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of the Electronic Transition of the Jet-Cooled CCI Free Radical. Retrieved on 2007-12-06. ^ Carbon: Binary compounds. Retrieved on 2007-12-06. ^ Electrical Conductivity. Retrieved on 2007-12-21. ^ a b Hardness of carbon. Retrieved on 2007-12-21. ^ a b c Carbon - Naturally occurring isotopes. 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