carbon
English
Noun
(
wikipedia carbon)
(label) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6.
A sheet of carbon paper.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), (The Big Sleep) , Penguin 2011, p. 51:
- 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 .
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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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
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* 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
* radiocarbon
Related terms
(terms related to carbon)
* carbonaceous
* carbonade
* carbonado
* (Carbonari)
* carbonate
* carboniferous
* carbonify
* carbonigenous
See also
(carbon related terms)
* aggregated diamond nanorod
* amorphous carbon
* buckminsterfullerene
* ceraphite
* chaoite
* charcoal
* coal
* diamond
* fullerene
* graphite
* lamp black
* lead
* lonsdaleite
* soot
* steel
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