OCEAN 295 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Phytoplankton, Oxygen, Methane
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Intro to the chemistry of marine organic carbon. Logistics: occasionally class will be held in otb 309, 306, 206 for labs, check schedule to know where to go. Organic carbon: many definitions of organic carbon, historic definition, organic compounds are synthesized in living organisms through vis vitalis the "life- force. this theory (vitalism), was disproven with the synthesis of oxalic acid (ho2c- Co2h) and then urea (nh2conh2) in the lab by a german chemist named. Inorganic carbon: the oxides of carbon and carbonates: dissolved inorganic carbon (dic): molecules in the carbonate system, particulate inorganic carbon (pic): calcium carbonate caco3 (mgco3 is also very common) Allotropes of carbon: diamond, graphite, buckey ball, carbon nanotube. All diagrams taken from "lecture 2 2019_part 1 carbon the atom_template. pptx", "lecture 2 2019_part 2 lewis dot template. pptx", and "lecture 2 2019_part 3 orbitals and bonding_template. pptx" on the course canvas website. 12c = 99/100 carbon atoms have 6 neutrons.
