carbon
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noun- 1.
(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.
- 2.
(countable)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.
- 3.
(countable, informal)A sheet of carbon paper.
- 4.
(countable, informal)A carbon copy.
Please provide me with a carbon of your form.
Press firmly: you are making a carbon.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)Soot.
Every morning she cleaned the carbon from the lamp chimneys.
- 7.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis, uncountable)(ecology, climate change, uncountable) Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
carbon neutral
carbon capture
- 8.
(countable, uncountable)A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
- 9.
(countable, uncountable)A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
- 10.
(abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable)Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).
carbon bike frame
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verb- 1.
(Internet, transitive, uncommon)To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
When I send it, I’ll carbon Julia so she’s aware.
Đồng nghĩa: cc, copy
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French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (charcoal, coal), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (to burn). carbo-.