The Nature of Carbon and Chemical Reactions

You need to realize that a diamond ring and a pencil lead are actually the exact same ingredient.

It is all just carbon, but the structure makes one hard and the other soft. That is the cheat

code for your science final. It is all about how atoms are arranged and how they move.

Solids are just vibrating, but add energy and they turn into liquid or gas.

If you see bubbles or a color change, you made a chemical reaction. Just remember,

you never actually destroy atoms, you just shuffle them around to make something new.