What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Nitrogen vs Carbon - What's the difference?

nitrogen | carbon |

As nouns the difference between nitrogen and carbon

is that nitrogen is (uncountable) a chemical element (symbol n) with an atomic number of 7 and atomic weight of 140067 while carbon is (label) the chemical element (symbol c) with an atomic number of 6.

nitrogen

English

Noun

(wikipedia nitrogen)
  • (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol N) with an atomic number of 7 and atomic weight of 14.0067.
  • (uncountable) Molecular nitrogen (N2), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature.
  • (countable) A specific nitrogen within a chemical formula, or a specific isotope of nitrogen
  • The two nitrogens are located next to one another on the ring.

    Synonyms

    * azote (obsolete) * when used as a packaging gas or propellant

    Derived terms

    * dinitrogen * nitragin * * * * nitrogenase * nitrogenate * nitrogen cycle * nitrogen dioxide * nitrogen fixation * nitrogen fixer * nitrogen fixing * nitrogenic * nitrogeniferous * nitrogenise, nitrogenize * nitrogen monoxide * nitrogen mustard * nitrogen narcosis * nitrogenous * nitrogen oxide * nitrogen tetroxide * nitrogen trichloride * nitrogen trifluoride * nitrogen triiodide * nitrophilous * nitrox

    See also

    * aqua fortis * aqua regia * laughing gas * saltpeter, saltpetre

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-25, author= Martin Lukacs
  • , volume=190, issue=20, page=13, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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 * radiocarbon

    See also

    (carbon related terms) * aggregated diamond nanorod * amorphous carbon * buckminsterfullerene * ceraphite * chaoite * charcoal * coal * diamond * fullerene * graphite * lamp black * lead * lonsdaleite * soot * steel ----