carbon
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“All life as we know it has carbon as the backbone of many of its molecules; carbon’s tetravalence gives it special importance in biochemical molecular bonds.”
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.”
A sheet of carbon paper.
A carbon copy.
“Please provide me with a carbon of your form.”
Verb 1 meaning
To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
“When I send it, I’ll carbon Julia so she’s aware.”
Etymology
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).
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CARBON at a glance
CARBON has 6 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + R 1 + B 3 + O 1 + N 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,658 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with carbon
All rhymes- RIBBON10
- BOURBON11
- HYDROCARBON22
- RADIOCARBON16
- GIBBON11
- EBON6
- BONBON10
- FLUOROCARBON19
- CHLOROFLUOROCARBON30
- PERFLUOROCARBON24
- HALOCARBON17
- MULTICARBON17
One letter away
- CARTON8
- CARRON8
- CARDON9
- CARBOY13
- CARBOS10
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