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Definition carbon

Etymology

Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Lavoisier, from Latin carb?, carb?nem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”), see also Old English heorþ (“hearth”), Old Norse hyrr (“fire”), Gothic ????? (hauri, “coal”), Old High German harsta (“roasting”), Russian ????? (ceren, “brazier”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (krada, “hearth, fireplace”), Lithuanian kuriu (“to heat”), karstas (“hot”) and krosnis (“oven”), Sanskrit ????? (k???a, “burnt, black”) and ?????? (k??ayati, “singes”), Latin crem? (“I consume or destroy by fire, burn; I burn something to ashes; I cremate; I make a burnt offering”).

Noun

carbon (countable and uncountable, plural carbons)

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.
2. (countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
3. (countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
4. (countable, informal) A carbon copy.
5. A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
6. (ecology, uncountable) Carbon dioxide, in the context of global warming and climate change.
7. A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
8. A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.

Verb

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

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

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