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		mensetmanusman on Oct 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel ... No, not all carbon is released as gas during decomposition. If it were, we wouldn’t have diamonds :)

burnished on Oct 22, 2021 [–]

I don't know enough about diamond formation to properly dispute this, but I thought they didn't form from organic, locally sourced carbon?

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