Saturday, 17 November 2012

Story of a Carbon Atom in the Carbon Cycle

My life started out in the air. I was in a molecule with two very nice oxygen atoms. I just frifted. I am im a carbon dioxide molecule though I have heard stories of becoming solids and all different things. Suddenly I was being sucked in. It was a plant doing photosynthesis. I was with the plant for weekes before the plant got picked. I was put on a table and the plant was chopped up. I was eaten along with the plant by a human. I bumped and jumbled about down a long dark passage into a larger space called the stomach. I wasn't there for long, as soon I spottted 2 oxygen atoms. I was eager to join them so I did and I was breathed out as carbon dioxide. However, I was soon sucked up again by some berries. I stayed there for a million years or so until eventually it was pressed and compressed so much that I turned into a different substance altogether. I lay in the forest until some shovels started digging and I saw light for the first time in ages. Some coal was put in a weird carrier bag thing and I went with it. I was shaken about a bit before being burned and I was set free. I mixed with oxygen to form carbon dioxide and for the moment I was free, but I would never be free from the carbon cycle.

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