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100 1  Hessen, D. O.|q(Dag Olav),|d1956-|eauthor. 
240 10 C Karbon.|lEnglish 
245 14 The many lives of carbon /|cDag Olav Hessen ; [English 
       translation by Kerri Pierce]. 
264  1 London, UK :|bReaktion Books Ltd,|c2017. 
300    261 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Translation of C. Karbon : en uautorisert biografi. 
       Originally published by Cappelen Damm AS, Oslo. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and 
       index. 
505 0  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 -- 
       Show size -- How bad are bananas? -- Petroholism's 
       withdrawal -- Afterlives. 
520    "In its pure form carbon can the soft graphite in a pencil
       or an immensely hard diamond. It is the basic building 
       block of most of the cells in our bodies. Carbon attracts,
       and one of the most crucial relationships it forms is with
       oxygen, producing carbon dioxide, the gas vital to life on
       earth. This is the story of a chemical element, C, its 
       myriad properties and its life cycle. It is the story of a
       balance between photosynthesis and cell respiration, 
       between building and burning, life and death.  Dag Olav 
       Hessen navigates us through an exploration of the 
       existence of carbon in minerals and rocks, wood and 
       rainforests, and of carbon's role in processes such as the
       greenhouse effect and the carbon cycles, on both small and
       large scales. He explores the burning issue of climate 
       change: how will ecosystems respond to global change? How 
       bad could things get? Will the world's ecosystems recover?
       And what are our moral obligations? Neither alarmist nor 
       moralistic, Hessen takes the reader on a journey from the 
       atom to our planet in informative, compelling prose"--Dust
       jacket. 
650  0 Carbon. 
650  7 Carbon.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00846775 
700 1  Pierce, Kerri,|etranslator. 
775 08 |iTranslation of:|aHessen, D. O. (Dag Olav), 1956-|tC 
       Karbon : uautorisert biografi.|dOslo : Cappelen Damm, 2015
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