Cleaning out our garage? Might take longer compared to writing a novella. And then there’s cleaning out our basement, comparable to writing the sequel.
From the Internet: “Carbon is a nonmetal that can bond with itself and many other chemical elements, forming over ten million compounds. Because it forms more compounds than any other element, it is sometimes called the ‘King of the Elements’.”
Anthropologically speaking, with a “harem” of compounds that large, maybe Carbon should be called the “Sultan of the Elements”. (—
In a ‘crash course’, what else should they expect?