Carbon vs Grey - What's the difference?
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(label) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6.
A sheet of carbon paper.
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A carbon copy.
A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
Carbon dioxide, in the context of global warming and climate change.
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As nouns the difference between carbon and grey
is that carbon is the chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6 while grey is alternative form of lang=en.As an adjective grey is
alternative form of lang=en.As a verb grey is
alternative form of lang=en.As a proper noun Grey is
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English
Noun
(wikipedia carbon)- He stepped back and opened his bag and took out a printed pad of D.O.A. forms and began to write over a carbon .
Martin Lukacs
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy, passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}
Derived terms
* activated carbon * beta carbon nitride * carb-, carbo- * carbinol * carbinyl * * * * carbon anhydride * carbon arc * carbon audit * carbon-based * carbon bisulfide, carbon bisulphide * carbon black * carbon copy * carbon-copy * carbon cycle * carbon dating * carbon debt * carbon dioxide * carbon disulfide, carbon disulphide * carbon emissions trading * carbon fiber, carbon fibre * carbon fixation * carbon footprint * carbon group * carbonic * carbonise, carbonize * carbonite * carbonless * carbon literacy * carbon market * carbon microphone * carbon monoxide * carbon nanofiber * carbon nanofoam * carbon nanotube * carbon-neutral * carbon-nitrogen cycle * carbon offset * carbonometer * carbonous * carbon oxide * carbon oxychloride * carbon oxysulfide, carbon oxysulphide * carbon paper * carbon printing * carbon process * carbon resistor * carbon sequestering * carbon star * carbon steel * carbon suboxide * carbon tax * carbon tetrabromide * carbon tetrachloride * carbon tetrafluoride * carbon tetraiodide * carbon trade * carbon transmitter * carbonyl * Carborundum * carboxyl * carburet * chlorocarbon * chlorofluorocarbon * chromo-carbon * ferrocarbon * fluorocarbon * fluorochlorohydrocarbon * glassy carbon * halocarbon * hydrocarbon * sulfide of carbon, sulphide of carbon * radiocarbonSee also
(carbon related terms) * aggregated diamond nanorod * amorphous carbon * buckminsterfullerene * ceraphite * chaoite * charcoal * coal * diamond * fullerene * graphite * lamp black * lead * lonsdaleite * soot * steel ----grey
English
Adjective
(greyer)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey , the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey -suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
