are there any interesting properties and uses of carbon?

Question

pretty weird question but i really need to know. please answer properly and help meee!

Answer 1

In addition to diamond (hard and very high heat conduction), carbon nanotubes are finding more uses, such as electron emitters in electronics devices.

Buckminster fullerene, sort of the precursor to nanotubes, has some interesting properties, although not commercially popular to this point.

Check out sp3 corporation's web site for using diamond films as a heat conductor.

Answer 2

1) if you're the same person asking all those questions about carbon, start handing out points...

2) carbon can be usefull for a lot of things.
- allows for a lot of chemical reactions and therefore life. (organic matter is made of carbon)
- graphite is what makes your pencil's point, and it's carbon.
- if you're a girl, you probably have carbon in the form of diamond on a ring or something (not usefull, true, but diamond is one of the hardest matterials we know of)... Diamond, being hard is used to strengthen digging machines (ore minning, oil minning) or used the make the edge of a saw better (used for example to cut silicium microchips, ie to cut the computer chip the correct size)
- it's used in carbon nanotubes which has the best tensile strength we know of. (how much strain it can support if you pull on it)

there are a few other uses of carbon, but they're less interresting, in my opinion.

Answer 3

it's one of the softest (graphite) and hardest(diamond) substances known.

I'm not one to quote the encyclopedia like some, so here's the link, lots of info.

Answer 4

carbon is one (if not the only) element that can form repeated bonds to itself this is why it forms the basis of all (known) life.

Answer 5

well i like diamonds and graphite myself.