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You are Carbon in Rock

What are you in for? It has taken millions of years but you've literally become "as hard as rock" living below ocean and earth surfaces. It's a tough world down here but you can tough it out.

Carbon in calcium carbonate sinks into sedimentary rock deposits such as limestone, dolomite and chalk. It can stay here for millions, even hundreds of millions of years. Pressure and heat turn the sediment into rock or sometimes, when matter built up faster than it could decay, into fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.

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%

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Rock_(geology)

Calcium Carbonate, Calcite, Calcium Magnesium Carbonate, Azurite, Malachite
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After all those of centuries of sediment build-up, pressure, and tectonic movement, you must be feeling cramped. You'll float free up here with us. Hitch a ride on the petroleum express and drift into the ATMOSPHERE!

Go through the process of HUMAN INTERVENTION.
After millions of years of sub-oceanic-floor movement, seafloor carbon from fossilized plants is forced deep into the earth's core where it is heated up and eventually melts, becoming fossil fuel. The raw fuel is extracted–drilled, mined, or fracked–then processed into combustible fuel. When burned, this 'fossil' fuel creates the energy to run your microwave, move your car, or heat your home. At the same time, all the carbon that was stored in the rock is released into the atmosphere.

2C8H18+25O2 => 16CO2 + 18H2O

Fuel + Oxygen => Water + Carbon Dioxide + Heat

Hydrocarbons release energy in the process of combustion.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Combustion
wikipedia.org/Fossil_fuel

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Hey, where do you think you're going? Do you think you're better than the rest of us? Stay around awhile. What else do you have to do for the next million years? Stick around; stay as ROCK.

Just WAIT AROUND!
Carbon stays in rock, oil, minerals and salts for millions and millions of year. Without human intervention, the carbon in these forms can re-enter the carbon cycle violently through volcanic eruptions or more gradually through CO2 rich vents and hot springs. Human intervention is a fast track to the atmosphere, geologically speaking. If you want to take your time, stay down here in the rock.