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Carbon

Z: 6
Mass: 12.011
Lifeforce: Air
In the body: brain, heart, lungs, bones, muscle, dna

The architect of life, four bonds spanning perfect tetrahedra, one face of the Merkaba. 18.5% of you is carbon: the load-bearing scaffold behind everything organic.

Kites and birds weave a bridge of threads between two hills. — Plate · Air Air never keeps to itself. It *connects* what two hills hold apart.

Forged in dying red giants through the triple-alpha process. Every carbon atom in your body once burned at 100 million degrees inside a star.

Lab note · The backbone of every organic molecule. Sugars, fats, proteins, DNA: all built on carbon's four-fold bond.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

C · Star fusion

Forged in the cores of living stars over billions of years of stellar fusion.

14 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

Your place in the system

H He Li Be B C N O F Ne Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe Cs Ba La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn Fr Ra Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og

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