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/ˈkɑɹ.bən/ · noun
(uncountable) 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.
Carbon is the most common element in our bodies—indeed, in all living things on earth.
Fans will pump air through the alkaline stream, which causes carbon dioxide to form solid calcium carbonate, the material from which seashells are formed, which will look like a fine sand, as well as dissolved bicarbonate.
A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.
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.
Please provide me with a carbon of your form.
Press firmly: you are making a carbon.
Every morning she cleaned the carbon from the lamp chimneys.
Use carbon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Carbon means (uncountable) 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..
Common synonyms include cc, copy, carbon copy, carbon paper.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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