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Ready for some action? You've got energy to burn. Feeling Get some variety. cramped after all those centuries? Stretch out. Let loose, then float free in the ATMOSPHERE! Fight entropy! You'll float free up here with us. Hitch a ride on the petroleum express,
Go involved in HUMAN ACTIVITY.
Every hour of every day society depends on energy from forms of carbon that take millenia to make. We drill oil, mine coal, frack natural gas. We extract fossil fuels from deep in the earth and refine them into combustible fuels. We burn these to move planes, trains and cars, to hear our home and cook our food, to generate electricity to run our computers. Burning also returns that long sequestered carbon to the atmosphere as a result.
Fossil fuels are extracted from the earth—drilled, mined, or fracked—then processed into combustible fuels. When burned, these fuel createsgenerate the energy to run your computer, move your car, or heat your home. At the same time, all the carbon that was stored deep 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 with Wikipedia: Combustion, Fossil_fuel, Hydrocarbon
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What's the rush? Why not stick around for another million years, or so? Take your time. Stick around awhile longer. What else are you gonna do for the next million years? Stick it out. Stay as ROCK.
Just WAIT AROUND!
Carbon stays in rock, oil, minerals and salts for millions and millions of year.
After millions of years of sub-oceanic-floor movement the fossilized remains of plants and animals are forced deep into the earth's fiery core. The organic carbon embedded in sedimentary rocks heats up, breaks down, then reforms into, becoming fossil fuel. long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms form, known as hydrocarbons.
Many different forms of hydroIf you want to take your time, stay down here in the rock.[Beneath the ocean the intense pressure of the water above and the heat from the earth's core combine ... may form hydrocarbons from organic matter deposited in sediment. ]carbons are made from simple constituents, only carbon and hydrogen bonds. Unlike the variety of bonds in living bodies.
[LONG TERM PROCESSES] Organic carbon from the remains of plants and animals break down and then form hydrocarbons, long chains of hydrogen and carbon. Pressure and heat turn the sediment into rock or sometimes, when matter builds up faster than it decays, into fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas. [Mountain peaks, limestone for cement]
[EQUATION for hydrocarbon formation? More time => different forms?]
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Hydrocarbon
You are Carbon in Rock
Heat and pressure sure can add up over time. Same as it ever was. We're at peaceYet, we endure in the face of eternity, dwelling below the hurly-burly of ocean and earth surfaces, but we can tough it out.
99% of all the carbon on earth is stored in the earth's crust. Millions, even hundreds of millions of years may pass before it moves along the carbon cycle journey. The immense scale of time taken in this part of the carbon cycle makes it virtually permanent storage. ... It can remain sequestered can stay there for millions, even hundreds of millions of years before entering the atmosphere, moving along the cycle. [centuries of sediment build-up, pressure, and tectonic movement.]
[Other routes out to atomosphere] Without human intervention, the carbon in these forms can re-enter the carbon cycle violently through volcanic eruptions or more gradually through vents, geysers and hot springs, or even more gradually through weathering where the surfaces of some rocks will react with chemicals in the atmosphere to relase carbon dioxide. Human intervention is a fast track to the atmosphere, geologically speaking.
Carbon in calcium carbonate from shells turn into sedimentary rock deposits such as limestone, dolomite and chalk.
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%
The composition of the earth's surface contains only a small fraction of carbon.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Rock_(geology)
