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carbon atom

n. an atom of carbon

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In diamond, the carbon atoms form tetrahedra, triangular pyramids with one carbon atom at each vertex and one in the center.

What sets the carbon atom apart is that it is shamelessly promiscuous.

Sometimes a carbon atom is held to the neighboring carbon atom by two bonds.

This is not necessarily a contradiction, because the Viking microbiology experiments are a thousand times more sensitive (per equivalent carbon atom) than the Viking chemistry experiments, and seem to detect organic matter synthesized in the Martian soil.

If the carbon and hydrogen were completely oxidized, they would become carbon dioxide (with molecules consisting of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms) and water (with molecules consisting of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom).

Every carbon atom would require two oxygen atoms and every two hydrogen atoms would require one oxygen atom.

Even here it was moderately strong in cross section-but along the long axis it smeared like graphite, the calcium and sulphur atoms readily changing their minds as to which was to act as the metal of the pair, surrendering their pressure-driven holds on one carbon atom to grab hopefully for the next one in line, or giving up altogether to become incorporated instead in a radical with a self-contained double sulphur bond, rather like cystine.

Even here it was moderately strong in cross sectionbut along the long axis it smeared like graphite, the calcium and sulphur atoms readily changing their minds as to which was to act as the metal of the pair, surrendering their pressure-driven holds on one carbon atom to grab hopefully for the next one in line, or giving up altogether to become incorporated instead in a radical with a self-contained double sulphur bond, rather like cystine.

The electronic structure of a carbon atom is such that it can form a uniquely strong bond with its fellow carbon atoms.

A symbol equated to a diagram of a carbon atom, Another symbol equated to a pi in binary numbers.

It was a shape which inspired all sorts of philosophical and scientific speculations (Kepler's cosmography, the carbon atom, Buckminster Fuller's geodesic structures .

As the equipment is used in a carbon-oxygen body, it must, of necessity, be hypersensitive to the carbon atom and molecule wave configuration.

The engineers were used to building survival suits for work on worlds whose lifeforms were nothing more than var-iations on a familiar theme, that theme being the carbon atom.

The engineers were used to building survival suits for work on worlds whose lifeforms were nothing more than variations on a familiar theme, that theme being the carbon atom.

She began recognizing familiar structures, atomic linkages: a carbon atom here, helical wavering .