carbon.
The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
Meaning & usage
The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
All life as we know it has carbon as the backbone of many of its molecules; carbon’s tetravalence gives it special importance in biochemical molecular bonds.
An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.
A sheet of carbon paper.
A carbon copy.
Please provide me with a carbon of your form.
Press firmly: you are making a carbon.
A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
Soot.
Every morning she cleaned the carbon from the lamp chimneys.
Soot. Especially, hardened soot as a caked-on deposit.
When you overhaul an engine, you need to remove the carbon from around the valve seats. The carbon buildup can be extensive.
Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
carbon neutral
carbon capture
A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).
carbon bike frame
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).
To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
When I send it, I’ll carbon Julia so she’s aware.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).
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