Carbon is the basis of life. It occurs in all known forms of life. Diamonds, one of the hardest substances known to man & graphite, one of the softest; both are forms of carbon. Carbon ash Carbon is made in [a/ the interiors of stars. \ v Carbon melts at J 3800 degrees Celcius, which is the highest melting point of any element. word carbo, which means charcoal. The word carbonis git derived from the Latin 8 \ées Carbon is a non metal which can bond with many other chemical elements and can form over ten million compounds. Carbon was named by the | chemist Antoine Lavoisier. After hydrogen, helium, and oxygen, carbon is the 4th most abundant element in the universe. The most recently discovered allotrope of carbon is graphene. q@tetny,, SIO