The Carbon is a chemical element abundant in nature, its technical details are as follows: Table period occupies the box number 6 and this number in turn is the atomic number, its atomic mass is 12,017 and its state is solid (not metallic, not magnetic). This completely organic material presents very rare allotropic characteristics, which allows the use of carbon to be varied and very useful. Carbon can be found as diamond, graphite and carbon, each and every one with an anthological nature to the others, the use that is given to these variants of carbon is curious, since one of the most common is for the manufacture of hydrocarbons Yfossil fuels which are renewable energy enhancers. It has been shown in all its variants that carbon is crystalline, including the carbon used to manufacture gasoline and other oils, it has been subjected to microscopic evaluations in which the crystalline nature of this chemical element has been evidenced.
Carbon in the manufacture of different fossil compounds has represented a significant advance in the production of mechanics, since the industrial revolution, steam engines worked with carbon-based compounds, since due to its high ignition power it served as a lightening of load weighed by the steam it produced. At present, the use of carbon and its derivatives is important, such as carbon, fossil fuel, such as graphite, it is used to make pencils and writing and marking tools, as well as, in the form of an alloy with other metals, it serves Protective armor for armored vehicles and camouflaged aircraft, as a layer of metal coated with graphite inhibits tracking radio waves.
The Diamond finally, is perhaps one of the most controversial of the uses given to this mineral, because, unlike diamonds are achieved in nature naturally diamonds based on graphite are subjected to a rigorous and complicated transformation in which temperature, pressure and states of matter play a fundamental role, in the end, incredible results of durability, quality and resistance are achieved.
