carbon

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

• (General American) enPR: kär'bən, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹbən/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bən

carbon (countable and uncountable, plural carbons)

1. (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6.
   • 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.

2. (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.

3. (countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 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.

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.
   • 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.

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.

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.

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

• cc

• Branco, bancor, barcon, corban

• karbon (rare)

carbon

1. (chemistry) carbon

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.

• kulstof

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

• IPA^(key): /karˈbon/
• Hyphenation: car‧bon

carbon n (uncountable)

1. carbon (chemical element)

carbon in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• càrbon

From Latin carbō, carbōnem.

carbon m (genitive singular carboin, no plural)

1. carbon (element)

   Synonym: gualan

• carbon dà-ogsaid