carbon: References & Edit History
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Carbon and Fireworks. | Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Carbon: An Amazingly Allotropic Element. | Jul 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Naturally Occurring Allotropes of Carbon. | Apr 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Carbon and hydrocarbons. | Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Learning Hub - Carbon � life�s framework element. | Dec 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: LSU College of Sciences - Department of Physics and Astronomy - An Overview of Synthetic Diamond and Diamond-like Carbon. | Aug 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Purdue University - Chemical Education Division Groups - The Inorganic Chemistry of Carbon. | May 29, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - Biology 2e - Carbon. | Jan 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - Carbon: Facts about an element that is a key ingredient for life on Earth. | Jun 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Carbon as a building block of life. | Apr 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Carbon and Fireworks. | Dec 30, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Carbon and other light element contents in the Earths core based on first-principles molecular dynamics. | Nov 13, 2022 | ||
| Changed “atomic number 4” to “atomic weight 4” and “atomic number 12” to “atomic weight 12” in the section Properties and uses. | May 13, 2020 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 25, 2017 | ||
| Added three photographs, three videos, and three diagrams. | Aug 25, 2017 | ||
| Description of Q-carbon's properties, creation, and uses added. | Dec 04, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: EnvironmentalChemistry.com - Carbon. | Dec 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Carbon. | Dec 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemicool - Carbon. | Dec 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Reader's Chem4Kids.com - Carbon. | Dec 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Royal Society of Chemistry - Carbon. | Dec 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun Science and Technology for Kids! - Carbon. | Mar 16, 2012 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 31, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 06, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: School of Chemistry, University of Bristol - Carbon Compounds. | Apr 09, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Nov 08, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Jefferson Lab - Carbon. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Los Alamos National Laboratory - Carbon. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Lenntech - Carbon. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Dentritics Gemscales Museum - Carbon. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: EdInformatics - Carbon. | Aug 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Lenntech - Carbon - C. |
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Jun 08, 2007 | |
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 12, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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