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The Resource The many lives of carbon, Dag Olav Hessen ; [English translation by Kerri Pierce]

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Label: The many lives of carbon, Dag Olav Hessen ; [English translation by Kerri Pierce]

Statement of responsibility: Dag Olav Hessen ; [English translation by Kerri Pierce]

Note: Translation of C. Karbon : en uautorisert biografi. Originally published by Cappelen Damm AS, Oslo

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index

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Contents: Part I. Carbon, carbon everywhere. Carbon in everything -- Fire explained -- The master of disguise : soft, hard and round -- Nylon tights and their descendants -- Carbon on wheels -- Plastic fantastic -- Synthias as a carbon company -- To build and to burn : carbon in the life equation -- From C3 to C4--and the world's most important protein -- Atomic physic's solution to photosynthesis -- Photosynthesis in reverse -- Good neighbors -- C and 4H : a hot partnership -- The benefits of methane -- Archaea -- Part II. The C in cycle. The Keeling curve -- A Swede before his time -- One or many cycles? -- Pyramids, chains and webs -- The carbon Queen Emiliania -- Borealis -- Paradise lost -- The long carbon cycle -- The anthropocene -- Gaia and feedbacks -- Bluer and more acidic -- Methane bombs -- Between a snowball and hell -- Oxygen's evolution -- Nitrogen and phosphorus : the great circulatory -- Changes -- Part III. The footprint. Paradise lost II -- Shoe size -- How bad are bananas? -- Petroholism's withdrawal -- Afterlives

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