First produced in a lab back in 2004, graphene is essentially a single layer of pure carbon atoms bonded together in a honeycomb lattice so thin it's actually considered two-dimensional.

石墨烯最早在2004年诞生于一个实验室，本质上是一层由纯碳原子组成的蜂窝状晶格层，薄到竟被认为是二维物质。

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Carbon dioxide was collecting in the molecule, and the scientist realized that it was coming from air in the lab.

分子中收集了二氧化碳，那位科学家察觉到这些二氧化碳来自实验室中的空气。

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Scientists can measure this in the lab, but they don't know how much more fertile the new, carbon-enhanced environment will be for plants.

科学家可以在实验室对此进行测量，但他们不知道碳增强后的新环境如何更富营养。

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For instance, Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) carbon nanotube TVs are ready to leave the lab and hit the market, outperforming today's flat panel displays and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) is leading the way to nanoscale computing.

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"They will be taken to a lab in Edinburgh, and radio-carbon dated, " she added.

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Hers is not the lab that did the tests on Floyd Landis, but Dr. Ayotte has used the carbon isotope test since the late 1990s.

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