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Carbon was discovered in prehistory and was known in the forms of soot and charcoal to the earliest human civilizations. Diamonds were known probably as early as 2500 BCE in China, while carbon in the form of charcoal was made by the same chemistry as it is today, by heating wood in a pyramid covered with clay to exclude air. [108] [109]
Carbon is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language science fiction short film based on global warming. It is written and directed by Maitrey Bajpai and Ramiz Ilham Khan, and film stars Jackky Bhagnani, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Prachi Desai. The film is set in 2067, in an Earth where carbon is in abundance, and oxygen is supplied by industries.
The two obtained the first isotope of this element, 234m Pa, that had been predicted by Mendeleev in 1871 as a member of the natural decay of 238 U: they named it brevium. A longer-lived isotope 231 Pa was found in 1918 by Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner , and was named by them protoactinium: since it is longer-lived, it gave the element its name.
For this new film, Olivier Marchal has surrounded himself with several actors he has already met: Benoît Magimel who was his partner in Truands, Michaël Youn with whom he shares the poster of My beloved brother on France 2, Patrick Catalifo which he directed in Les Lyonnais et Borderline and Gérard Depardieu which he directed in 36 quai des Orfèvres.
A mildly radioactive transuranic element used to power spacecraft and certain planet-bound facilities, named after real-world scientist Freeman Dyson. It is found all throughout the Milky Way and was discovered on Earth's mantle during the early 22nd century. However, it can also be synthesized. Dysonium fuel cores look like glowing, blue spheres.
Taxon Type Named for Notes Ref Gigantactis gargantua Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981: Anglerfish: Gargantua [18]†Gargantuavis Buffetaut & Le Loeuff, 1998 Bird: Gargantua A genus of fossil flightless birds from the Cretaceous of Europe, and the largest known birds of the Mesozoic era; "generic name from Gargantua, the giant of French folklore made famous by François Rabelais, and avis ...
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The Kasimovian is the first stage in the Upper Pennsylvanian. It is named after the Russian city of Kasimov, and was originally included as part of Nikitin's 1890 definition of the Moscovian. It was first recognised as a distinct unit by A.P. Ivanov in 1926, who named it the "Tiguliferina" Horizon after a type of brachiopod.