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Why Is Carbon So Important to Life?

Every living thing on Earth — you, the dog, the trees outside — is carbon-based, and it's not an accident. Dad breaks down carbon's secret four-armed molecular superpower, why silicon never had a shot at being life's building block instead, and how the carbon in your own body was literally forged inside a dying star billions of years ago.

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