Diamonds may be forever, but are some other forms of carbon merely passing fads? Stuart Cantrill considers why carbon often seems to be a chemist's best friend. Although carbon is just one of the ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look ...

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 ...

and they are forms of the element carbon. Gold is an example of a metal element that can also be found in rocks. The air we breathe is mostly made from nitrogen and oxygen, both of which are elements.

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 ...

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.

Ever wondered what the most abundant element on Earth is? Or how the elements that make up our planet compare to those floating out in the vast universe?