carbon

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carbon n (singular definite carbonet, not used in plural form)

carbonet (definite singular)
carbon (indefinite nominative singular)
carbonet (definite nominative singular)
carbons (genitive indefinite singular)
carbonets (definite genitive singular)


carbon

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carbon n (uncountable, diminutive carbonnetje n)

Probably borrowed from French carbone, ultimately from Latin carbō. The sense “fibre-reinforced polymer” derived from English carbon.


carbon

Carbon is the most common element in our bodies—indeed, in all living things on earth.

2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 20:

(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.

A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.

(countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.

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.

1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 51:

(countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.

A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.

carbon neutral

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.

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:

(ecology, uncountable) carbon dioxide, in the context of climate change.

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.

1892, English Mechanic and World of Science, page 444:

A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.

A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.

carbon bike frame

carbon fiber (reinforced polymer)
carbon fiber#English

(informal) Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).

en-noun

carbon (countable and uncountable, plural carbons)

→ Bengali: কার্বন (karbon)

→ Malay: karbon

→ Navajo: káábin

→ Welsh: carbon

Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).


carbon

When I send it, I’ll carbon Julia so she’s aware.

(Internet, transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to receive a carbon copy of an email message.

en-verb

carbon (third-person singular simple present carbons, present participle carboning, simple past and past participle carboned)

carbons (present singular third-person)
carboning (participle present)
carboned (participle past)
carboned (past)


carbon

carbon (accusative indefinite nominative)
carbonul (accusative definite nominative)
carbon (indefinite)
carbonului (definite)
carbonule (vocative)

Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”). Doublet of cărbune.


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carbon m (genitive singular carboin, no plural)

carboin (genitive singular)
carbon
charbon


carbon

carbonau (plural)
carbon
garbon (soft)
ngharbon
charbon

dal a storio carbon

carbon capture and storage, carbon sequestration

Borrowed from English carbon, from French carbone from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).