Atmospheric carbon dioxide is the primary source of carbon in life on Earth and its concentration in Earth's pre-industrial atmosphere since late in the Precambrian was regulated by photosynthetic organisms and geological phenomena.arbon dioxide was the first gas to be described as a discrete substance. In about 1640, the Flemish chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont observed that when he burned charcoal in a closed vessel, the mass of the resulting ash was much less than that of the original charcoal.
The giant Queen buys Gulliver from the farmer, and now he lives at court. The farmer is all too willing to part with Gulliver at this point because Gulliver has lost so much weight that the farmer figures he will die soon. Gulliver is treated well at court, and given food and new clothes.
Then the little man came and said, I'll do it again, but you must promise me the first child that you have with the king.. In her distress she made the promise, and when the king saw that this straw too had been turned into gold, he took the miller's daughter as his wife. Soon thereafter the queen delivered a child.nce upon a time there was a girl whose task it was to spin a certain quantity of flax every day. However, she could never complete her work. Then one day a man came to her who promised her that he would spin the flax for her every day if she could guess his name. But the girl could not guess his name.