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Origin: It's a product of heat and pressure of lesser elements. It is the end of a radioactive decomposition of higher elements. So, it exists whenever these processes are occurring. Generally, produced in stars.

Carbon exists in all living things, and is basis for all living organisms. Even, after living things die, they still posses their carbon. (Hence, why we can apply carbon dating to most things.)

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