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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) carbone
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (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.
- (countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
- (countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
- (countable, informal) A carbon copy.
- A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
- Soot.
- Especially, hardened soot as a caked-on deposit.
- (ecology, climate change, uncountable) Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
- 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.
- (informal) Ellipsis of carbon fiber.
Verbi
- (Internet, transitive, uncommon) To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | carbons |
Luokat
(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.
Graphite (left) and diamond (right), two allotropes of carbon
(countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
Structural formula of methane, the simplest possible organic compound.
A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
Sticks of vine and compressed charcoal
Especially, hardened soot as a caked-on deposit.
Gross pathology of lung showing centrilobular emphysema characteristic of smoking. Closeup of fixed, cut surface shows multiple cavities lined by heavy black carbon deposits.
(ecology, climate change, uncountable) Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
Diagram of the carbon cycle. The black numbers indicate how much carbon is stored in various reservoirs, in billions tonnes ("GtC" stands for gigatonnes of carbon; figures are c. 2004). The purple numbers indicate how much carbon moves between reservoirs each year. The sediments, as defined in this diagram, do not include the ≈70 million GtC of carbonate rock and kerogen.
