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graphite, diamonds...mea culpa!!

updated tue 1 feb 00

 

mary simmons on mon 31 jan 00

As has been pointed out to me SEVERAL times off-list, mostly kindly: no one
claimed that graphite or diamond are carbonate minerals, but burning them
will produce CO2 (so does burning WOOD, I might add!).

So, as they used to say in catholic school "idle minds are the devils
workshop".

Mine was both. Mea culpa...
Mary



Mary Simmons
Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Northrop Hall
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1116

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