Carbon

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-004139",
  "term": "Carbon",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A chemical element that is essential to all living things. Carbon combines with other elements to form a variety of different compounds. Plants and animals are made up of carbon compounds, and so are certain minerals. Carbon combines with oxygen to make a gas called carbon dioxide.\n\n2. Symbol C--A naturally abundant nonmetallic element that occurs in many inorganic and in all organic compounds, exists freely as graphite and diamond and as a constituent of coal, limestone, and petroleum, and is capable of chemical self-bonding to form an enormous number of chemically, biologically, and commercially important molecules.",
  "abbreviation": "C",
  "subject": "Climate change",
  "references": [
    "Student's Guide to Global Climate Change",
    "USGS Energy Resources Program Energy Glossary & Acronym List"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/carbon/"
}