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You are Carbon in Rock

You did it! It has taken millions of years but you've literally become "as hard as rock" living below in ocean and earth's surface. Congrats on becoming the toughest of limestone brick that no karate master could smash.

When organic matter decays over many years, it begins to build up as sediment. Many years later this sediments undergoes chemical reachingts and begins to form limestone. (pending)

Iron: 32.1%, Oxygen: 30.1%, Silicon: 15.1%, Sulfur: 2.9%, Magnesium: 13.9%, Nickel: 1.8%, Calcium: 1.5%, Aluminum: 1.4%, Other: 1.2%

EQUATION (not )SIMPLE

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Choose HUMAN INTERVENTION. After millions of years of sub-oceanic-floor movement, seafloor carbon is forced deep into the earth's core where it is heated up and eventually melts. Here carbon can then rise to the earths surface and eventually the atmosphere violently through volcanic eruptions or more gradually through CO2 rich vents and hot springs.

[THIS DOESN'T MATCH...?] After millions of years of sediment build up, pressure, and tectonic movement, you have become molten lava which is then spewed out into the atmosphere

The process by which [?????] are converted to energy.

2C8H18+25O2 = 16CO2 + 18H2O

Fuel + Oxygen = Water + Carbon Dioxide + Heat

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Combustion

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Choose to WAIT AROUND! Carbon stays in rock, oil, minerals and salts for millions and millions of year. Without human intervention, the carbon in these forms re-enters the carbon cycle very very slowly through processes like volcanoes or erosion.

Stay around awhile. What else would you do for the next million years?