Carbon

•I'm melting Point: 6332.0 °F
•I'm boiling Point: 8720.6 °F

•Density: 2.2670 grams

•Carbon can be black (graphite), or transparent (diamond)

•Carbon is in group 14

•Antoine Lavoisier discovered carbon in 1789. He gets the credit for discovering it because he wrote and recorded it in a textbook

•The word carbon comes from the Latin word carbo, meaning coal

•While carbon forms many different compounds it is a relatively unreactive element

•Carbon was discovered by early human civilizations in the form charcoal and soot