A food for all seasons. Breadfruit is a good staple food that can be easily preserved and eaten all year round. Many Island people use breadfruit only when it is in season. Much breadfruit is therefore wasted because a great deal of this food is available only at one time and because few preservation methods are being used.
Re-jigger the arrangement, and â presto! â the atoms form diamond, one of the hardest materials in the world. Carbon is also the key ingredient for most life on Earth; the pigment that made the first tattoos; and the basis for technological marvels such as graphene, which is a material stronger than steel and more
Cycling of Nitrogen. Like carbon, nitrogen also has always been present on the earth, and in the nitrogen cycle, nitrogen cycles through the global environment. Nitrogen is also a chemical element, and it is the most abundant element in the atmosphere, making up 78% of the atmosphere. Nitrogen is very unreactive with other elements, and it cannot be used directly as a nutrient by plants and animals the way oxygen or carbon can.