MATERIALS · LIFE · COSMOS
One ingredient. Different worlds.
What connects a pencil, a diamond and a living leaf?
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C01 · composition
The pencil question
Where is the carbon that leaves a mark?
C02 · structure
Same element, different arrangement
How can graphite and diamond behave so differently?
C03 · scale
Inside a living leaf
What connects a leaf to its molecular machinery?
C04 · ledger
Where a plant’s carbon goes
Does a tree build its carbon from sunlight?
C05 · diffraction
How structure is investigated
How can a pattern reveal an arrangement?
C06 · timeline
Before Earth
What connects the carbon in a pencil to stars?