Category:StableCarbonIsotope

Category: StableCarbonIsotope [1]

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Carbon in nature exists in oxidized (i.e., CO₂ and carbonates), elemental (i.e., graphite and diamond), and reduced (i.e., methane and organic matter]) forms. Carbon has two <a href="/Category:StableIsotope" title="Category:StableIsotope"> stable isotopes</a>: the light isotope ¹²C (abundance: 98.9%, mass: 12.000000 amu) and the heavy isotope ¹³C (abundance: 1.1%, mass: 13.003355 amu). Since the mass of ¹³C is higher than the mass of ¹²C, the carbon isotopes are fractionated by chemical and biological processes. In general, ¹²C is strongly partitioned into organic matter (reduced form) while the heavy isotope is concentrated in the oxidized forms of carbon.

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