Carbon
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BBC dispatches 35 staff to climate talks - creating as much carbon as an African village does in a yearBBC dispatches 35 staff to climate talks - creating as much carbon as an African village does in a year Last updated at 11:50 PM on 20th November 2009 The BBC's environmental analyst Roger Harrabin is expected to be included in the... In this article: BBC, Climate change, Carbon, Copenhagen, Carbon dioxide, BBC World News, BBC News Channel, and BBC News Website |
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BBC News | 6 hours ago
Hope for Australia carbon deal
...energy lobby has argued it would damage the economy, he adds. Australia has the highest per capita carbon emissions among developed nations and coal is its biggest export. Mr Rudd earlier told the BBC that he believed a framework...
In this article: Australia, Kevin Rudd, Coal, Copenhagen, Carbon footprint, Global warming, Liberal Party, and UN
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Telegraph.co.uk - Earth | November 12, 2009
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...a group of worldwide contributors. 7. BBC Bloom (bbc.co.uk/bloom) gives advice on how to help fight climate change: install a biomass stove, have a low-carbon wedding and cut down on meat and dairy. 8. Karmawish (karmawish.com) is a place...
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Airport flight increase rejected
...that the plans be approved. TAG said it would have tackled any noise issue, had a commitment to developing a low-carbon airport and had also ruled out an additional runway or terminal being be built. One opponent of the expansion,...
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Carbon capture site gets EU cash
...of EU cash on Saturday, the BBC has learned. CCS technology captures the carbon released when coal burns and pipes it under the North Sea where it is stored for thousands of years. It is thought 1,500 jobs will be created by the...
In this article: European Union, Coal, Climate change, North Sea, and Department of Energy
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Harrabin's Note
Harrabin's Notes: Carbon trading In his regular column, the BBC's environment analyst, Roger Harrabin, assesses the latest assault against carbon trading ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference. CARBON TRADING: DOES IT REALLY REDUCE...
In this article: Friends of the Earth, EU, Greenpeace, Copenhagen, London, US, China, and Allegation
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Wind breakers
The author of the 2006 Stern Review into the cost of climate change attacked the "enormous pressure" meat production puts on the world's resources and said people were becoming increasingly aware about "low carbon consumption". He...
In this article: Methane, Food and Agriculture Organization, Climate change, Carbon dioxide, Belching, Cows, and Flatulence
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Carbon (pronounced: /kɑɹbən/) is a chemical element with the symbol C and its 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 C and C being stable, while C is radioactive, decaying with a half-life of about 5700 years. Carbon is one of the few elements known to man since antiquity. 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. 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.
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