| 单词 | carbon |
| 释义 | carbon (once / 374 pages) 1n 2n Carbon is an element that takes the solid form of either graphite or diamond. Carbon is one of the basic elements of any living thing. Carbon is known as the most essential element for life, and it's the second most abundant — after oxygen — in the human body. Carbon paper was an early method of making copies, using a sheet of paper coated with wax and, originally, carbon soot. The copy that results from writing or typing on paper that's placed on top, with a blank page beneath the carbon paper, is called a carbon copy. The Latin root of carbon is carbonem, "charcoal." WORD FAMILYcarbon: carbonate, carbonic, carbonise, carbonize, carbons, carburise, carburize+/bicarbonate: bicarbonates/carbonate: bicarbonate, carbonated, carbonates, carbonating, carbonation, decarbonate/carbonated: noncarbonated, uncarbonated/carbonise: carbonisation, carbonised, carbonising, decarbonise/carbonize: carbonization, carbonized, carbonizes, carbonizing, decarbonize/carburise: decarburise/carburize: carburized, carburizes, carburizing, decarburize/decarbonate: decarbonating/decarbonize: decarbonized, decarbonizing USAGE EXAMPLESThe carbon bubble does exactly the same thing. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) The containers consist of an aluminum liner with an outer layer of strong carbon fibers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Petra Nova uses the most common technology for carbon capture. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 n an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper C, atomic number 6 fullerene a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms carbon 14, radiocarbona radioactive isotope of carbon chara charred substance charcoal, wood coala carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air carbon black, crock, lampblack, smut, soota black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink activated carbon, activated charcoalpowdered or granular carbon used for purifying by adsorption; given orally (as a slurry) it is an antidote for some kinds of poisons black lead, graphite, plumbagoused as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors adamant, diamondvery hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem lead, pencil leadmixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil buckminsterfullerene, buckyballa spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene carbon nanotube, nanotubea fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape animal black, animal charcoal, bone black, bone charblack substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment black diamond, carbonadoan inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing pencilgraphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication snuffthe charred portion of a candlewick chemical element, element any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter 1n a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper Syn|Hyper carbon paper paper a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses 2n a copy made with carbon paper Syn|Hyper carbon copy copy a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing |
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