The present book deals exclusively with liquids containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. At 15° and atmospheric pressure an atom of hydrogen, when in combination with an atom of carbon ...
But what is it really but a collection of ordinary carbon atoms—the same kind of atom that makes up 18 percent of your body and is an essential ingredient of all living things? This Hot Science ...
But what makes up a carbon atom—or any other atom? The first subatomic particle to be identified was the electron, in 1898. Ten years later, the British physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered ...