carbon
English
[edit]| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| C | |
| Previous: boron (B) | |
| Next: nitrogen (N) | |
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”). By surface analysis, carbo- + -on.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: kärʹbən, IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹ.bən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːbən/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bən
Noun
[edit]carbon (countable and uncountable, plural carbons)
- (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.
- 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 20:
- Carbon is the most common element in our bodies—indeed, in all living things on earth.
- 2024 April 21, Laura Paddison, “Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags”, in CNN[1]:
- 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.
- (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.
- (countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 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.
- (countable, informal) A carbon copy.
- A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
- (ecology, climate change, uncountable) Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
- 2014 April 25, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 20, page 13:
- 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.
- A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
- 1892, English Mechanic and World of Science, page 444:
- To trim an arc lamp, first remove the old carbons and carefully and thoroughly wipe the carbon rods, holders, &c. with a clean, dry rag.
- A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
- (informal) Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).
- carbon bike frame
Hyponyms
[edit]Hyponyms of carbon
Derived terms
[edit]- anticarbon
- benzyloxycarbonyl
- biocarbon
- carbapenem
- carbazotic acid
- carb-, carbo-
- carbinol
- carbinyl
- carbogen
- Carboloy
- carbonæmia
- carbon anhydride
- carbon arc
- carbonate
- carbonation
- carbon audit
- carbon-based
- carbon bisulfide, carbon bisulphide
- carbon black
- carbon budget
- carbon burning
- carbon capture
- carbon-carbon bond
- carbon chauvinism
- carbon chauvinist
- carbon chloride
- carbon-copy
- carbon copy
- carbon cost
- Carbon County
- carbon credit
- carbon cycle
- carbon-date
- carbon dating
- carbon debt
- carbon detonation
- carbon dioxid
- carbon dioxide
- carbon dioxide equivalent
- carbon dioxide-equivalent
- carbon dioxide snow
- carbon diselenide
- carbon disulfide, carbon disulphide
- carbon emissions trading
- carbon-ferrous
- carbon fiber, carbon fibre
- carbon fixation
- carbon footprint
- carbon-free
- carbon group
- carbonian
- carbonic
- carbonide
- carbonific
- carbonification
- carbon inset
- carbon insetting
- carbon-intensive
- carbonise, carbonize
- carbonite
- carbonization
- carbon leakage
- carbonless
- carbonlike
- carbon literacy
- carbon market
- carbon microphone
- carbon monofluoride
- carbon monoxide
- carbon nanofiber
- carbon nanofibre
- carbon nanofoam
- carbon nanotube
- carbon negative
- carbon-neutral
- carbon neutrality
- carbon-nitrogen cycle
- carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle
- carbon number
- carbon offset
- carbon offsetting
- carbonometer
- carbonosome
- carbonous
- carbon oxide
- carbon oxychloride
- carbon oxysulfide, carbon oxysulphide
- carbon paper
- carbon planet
- carbon print
- carbon printing
- carbon process
- carbon resistor
- carbon sequestering
- carbon sequestration
- carbon sink
- carbon star
- carbon steel
- carbon subnitride
- carbon suboxide
- carbon tablet
- carbon tax
- carbon tet
- carbon tetrabromide
- carbon tetrachloride
- carbon tetrafluoride
- carbon tetraiodide
- carbon trade
- carbon trading
- carbon transmitter
- carbonyl
- carborexia
- carborundum
- Carborundum
- carboxide
- carboxyl
- carburet
- chromo-carbon
- chromocarbon
- cyanocarbon
- dicarbon
- halon
- hydrobromofluorocarbon
- intercarbon
- monocarbon
- multi-carbon
- nanocarbon
- nitrocarbol
- nitrocarbon
- noncarbon
- organocarbon
- oxocarbon
- perfluorocarbon
- petrocarbon
- polycarbon
- pyrocarbon
- sulfide of carbon, sulphide of carbon
- tetracarbon
- thiocarbon
- zinc-carbon battery
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]chemical element
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atom of this element
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informal: a sheet of carbon paper
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informal: carbon copy
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fossil fuel made of impure carbon
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ecology: carbon dioxide
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carbon used as element in voltaic battery
informal: carbon fiber — see also carbon fiber
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Translations to be checked
Verb
[edit]carbon (third-person singular simple present carbons, present participle carboning, simple past and past participle carboned)
- (Internet, transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to receive a carbon copy of an email message.
See also
[edit]carbon related terms
Further reading
[edit]
carbon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Carbon on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| C | |
| Previous: bor (B) | |
| Next: kvælstof (N) | |
Alternative forms
[edit]- karbon (rare, but now official)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carbon n (singular definite carbonet, not used in plural form)
Usage notes
[edit]While kul (“coal”) is never used to refer to the element of carbon, it may sometimes replace it in names of derivations, such as kuldioxid/carbondioxid, kulsyre, kulilte/carbonmonoxid.
Declension
[edit]| neuter gender |
singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | carbon | carbonet |
| genitive | carbons | carbonets |
Further reading
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Probably borrowed from French carbone, ultimately from Latin carbō. The sense “fibre-reinforced polymer” derived from English carbon.
Noun
[edit]carbon n (uncountable, diminutive carbonnetje n)
Etymology 2
[edit]From carbonpapier.
Noun
[edit]carbon n (uncountable, diminutive carbonnetje n)
Romanian
[edit]
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| C | |
| Previous: bor (B) | |
| Next: azot (N) | |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”). Doublet of cărbune.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carbon n (uncountable)
- carbon (chemical element)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | carbon | carbonul |
| genitive-dative | carbon | carbonului |
| vocative | carbonule | |
Further reading
[edit]- “carbon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin carbō, carbōnem.
Noun
[edit]carbon m (genitive singular carboin, no plural)
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| carbon | charbon |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| C | |
| Previous: boron (B) | |
| Next: nitrogen (N) | |
Borrowed from English carbon, from French carbone from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carbon m (plural carbonau)
Derived terms
[edit]- bond carbon-hydrogen (“carbon-hydrogen bond”)
- cadwyn carbonau (“carbon chain”)
- canran cynnwys carbon (“percentage carbon content”)
- carbon canolig (“medium carbon”)
- carbon cyfunol (“combined carbon”)
- carbon deuocsid (“carbon dioxide”)
- carbon deusylffid (“carbon disulfide”)
- carbon isel (“low carbon”)
- carbon monocsid (“carbon monoxide”)
- carbon niwtral (“carbon neutral”)
- carbon rhydd (“free carbon”)
- carbon tetraclorid (“carbon tetrachloride”)
- carbonad (“carbonate”)
- carbonaidd (“carbonic, carbonaceous”)
- carbonig (“carbonic”)
- copi carbon (“carbon copy”)
- cylchred garbon (“carbon cycle”)
- dal a storio carbon (“carbon capture and storage, carbon sequestration”)
- dal carbon (“carbon capture”)
- dur carbon (“steel capture”)
- dyddio carbon (“carbon dating”)
- nanodiwb carbon (“carbon nanotube”)
- ôl troed carboneg (“carbon footprint”)
- papur carbon (“carbon paper”)
- raced garbon (“carbon racket”)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
|---|---|---|---|
| carbon | garbon | ngharbon | charbon |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “carbon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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