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
Silicon is the second most abundant element. Silicon dioxide and silicates (salts derived from silicon dioxide) make up about 87 percent of the materials in the Earth's crust. (Source: Tzimopoulos, Nicholas D., et al. Modern Chemistry, pp. 289, 758.) However water is the most common substance on the surface of the Earth. In the atmosphere, Nitrogen is the most common element (78%). It is believed that the core of our planet is mostly made of iron (at very high pressure and density), so iron would be the most common element within the Earth.