Quotes About Carbon Atom

#1. Consider carbon, for example. The lifetime of carbon in the combined atmosphere-ocean-biosphere, the time it takes on average before the typical carbon atom is transferred to the sediment, is less than 200,000 years.

Michael B McElroy

#2. Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

James Jeans

#3. Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

Brian Cox

#4. I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

Linus Pauling

#5. A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

Jostein Gaarder

#6. All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom.

Giulio Natta

#7. Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

Fred Hoyle

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

Bill Bryson

#9. Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.

August Kekule

#10. Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?"
He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks I get?"
"Give me that bat and I'll show you how grateful I am, coward!

Kiersten White

#11. People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Agatha Christie

#12. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

Barbara Mandrell

#14. Girls are important: Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.

Jill Lepore

#15. As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?

Lisa Bedrick

#16. Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#17. Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.

Hosea Ballou

#18. The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

Hilda Scott

#19. There are plenty of designers around who could advise you on artwork. I'm not the person you want."
"Oh, I suspect you are exactly the person I'm looking for.

B. J. Daniels

#20. Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

Richard Smalley

#21. Besides trying to influence opinion in Maine, Webster sent agents to disrupt the activities of the "Patriot Hunters," a radical American group hoping to oust the British from Canada, and the scheme seems to have been the first time that Americans were targets of their own government.

Gary May

#22. Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

Victor Grignard

#23. Zimmermann believed that everybody deserved the right to the privacy that was offered by RSA encryption, and he directed his political zeal toward developing an RSA encryption product for the masses.

Simon Singh

#24. I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.

Jack Foster