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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (19739)1/20/2008 12:36:14 PM
From: HPilot  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36923
 
Carbon is not a metal as a noun. But it is still the metal of life. Look up the definition of metal. That of which one is made.



To: FJB who wrote (19739)1/21/2008 4:55:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Respond to of 36923
 
Robert, he used it in the correct sense. Meaning derives from context. Click back upstream to the usage and it was correct.

He didn't mean carbon is literally a metal. It is a semi-metal in graphite form,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semimetal in that it's an electron conductor but that's nothing to do with his usage.

Mqurice


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