carbon
Meaning of carbon
noun
- the chemical element of atomic number 6, a non-metal which has two main forms (diamond and graphite) and which also occurs in impure form in charcoal, soot, and coal.
- carbon dioxide or other gaseous carbon compounds released into the atmosphere, associated with climate change.
the level of carbon in the atmosphere has been consistently rising
fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions continued to rise
late 18th century: from French carbone, from Latin carbo, carbon- ‘coal, charcoal’.
Information about carbon
- It is a name.
- The plural form of carbon is: carbons.
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Hyphenation of carbon
car-bon
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- carbon is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Words that rhyme with carbon
Arbon, Glencarbon, albocarbon, charbon, chlorocarbon, chlorofluorocarbon, chlorohydrocarbon, dioxidocarbon, fluorocarbon, halocarbon, hexacarbon, hydridonitridocarbon, hydrocarbon, hydrochlorofluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon, multicarbon, noncarbon, oxidosulfidocarbon, oxocarbon, pentacarbon, perfluorocarbon, radiocarbon, recarbon, silicohydrocarbon, tetrachlorocarbon, tetrafluorocarbon, tetrahydridocarbon, tricarbon, trichlorofluorocarbon, Bourbon, bourbon
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