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This WebElements periodic table page contains uses for the element carbon ... The following uses for carbon are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I'd be delighted to receive corrections as well as additional referenced uses (please use the feedback mechanism to add uses).
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www.webelements.com/carbon/uses.html
www.webelements.com/carbon/uses.html
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carbon (C) (chemical element), Properties and uses, Britannica Online Encyclopedia, On a weight basis, carbon is 19th in order of elemental abundance in the crust of the Earth, and there are estimated to be 3.5 times as many carbon atoms as silicon atoms in the universe. ... Elemental carbon exists in several forms,
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www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/94732/carbon/1118/Pr...
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/94732/carbon/1118/Properties-and-uses
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Using carbon dioxide at high temperature and pressure, known as supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2), in place of the hazardous materials, Laboratory researchers have demonstrated a technology that inexpensively replaces the solvents as well as the tremendous quantities of ultra-pure water that are used to wash...
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www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archive/01-018.sht...
www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archive/01-018.shtml
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Cheap Drinking Water from the Ocean; Carbon nanotube-based membranes will dramatically cut the cost of desalination ... A water desalination system using carbon nanotube-based membranes could significantly reduce the cost of purifying water from the ocean.
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www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2261
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Carl Imhoff directs research and development regarding country-wide electrical grids at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy>> ... Chemist Joanna Fowler studies the brain and diseases such as addiction using positron emission tomography (PET scans) among other techniques. In 2009, Dr.
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www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51558/malaria-treatment-use...
www.earthsky.org/radioshows/51558/malaria-treatment-uses-carbon-monoxide
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Weighing all of 10 micrograms per centimeter squared, the new product is an inexpensive composite material made from carbon nanotubes, ... they both run on gas and are used for transportation, but just because a truck costs more to produce, doesn't make it's uses less viable or marketable. There are niche uses for all of...
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www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2006/01/a...
www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2006/01/australian-solar-research-uses-carbon-nanotubes-42103
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Here's a desk made of carbon fiber. Its structure and material makes it super-solid, and light... except that there's a massively heavy piece of glass on top of it. Also, I usually complain about how heavy my desk if only one every couple of years when I move to a new place.
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www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/08/hexadesk_uses_car...
www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/08/hexadesk_uses_carbon_fiber_for_a_light_but_solid_desk.html
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A Don at Oxford University has come up with a novel way to measure the hotness of chilli peppers objectively. ... Using carbon nanotubes and adsortive stripping voltammetry, Professor Richard Compton's idea could end up replacing the Scoville test, a subjective taste test created almost a century ago, that uses volunteers,
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gizmodo.com/5015761/oxford-professor-uses-carbon-nanotu...
gizmodo.com/5015761/oxford-professor-uses-carbon-nanotubes-to-measure-red-hot-chillies
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