carbon
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- noun
- /ˈkɑrbən/
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- Initially, much of the currently frozen, stored carbon would be released into the atmosphere.
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Watch on YouTubeHe started designing his own kits, carbon fibre bumpers.
- He started designing his own kits, carbon fibre bumpers.
- It's pulling the carbon right down into the earth.
- And and on IO, the water and carbon dioxide are not there.
- We're trying to shift to a low carbon economy around the world.
- We know on this planet only about carbon based life forms.
- Our loops answer this liquid carbon dioxide cooling system.
- They they take the foods that we have carbon hydrogen bonds, OK.
- Water, air, and carbon make up a ton of a tree's mass.
- So this table is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, magnesium.
Examples
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Water, air, and carbon make up a ton of a tree's mass.
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In the short term, fire can influence the carbon cycle in a number of ways.
Academic text (2011) -
We know on this planet only about carbon based life forms.
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We're trying to shift to a low carbon economy around the world.
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We understand very well indeed the potential to store carbon through that route.
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We are a carbon based life-form.
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Diamonds are made of carbon, like graphite.
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So seagrass actually stores more carbon than rainforests.
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All pathways typically result in carbon being cycled through the decomposition process at some point.
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All living things are composed of carbon, including plants and animals.
Compounds
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A colorless gas without smell that people and cars make and plants use to make oxygen
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A colorless, odorless gas that is very poisonous and comes from burning fuels without enough air
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A way to find the age of old bones, wood, or cloth by measuring carbon-14
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An illness that happens when carbon monoxide gas reduces the oxygen your body gets
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An atom with six protons and six electrons that is the main part of many molecules in living things
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A very small hollow cylinder made of carbon atoms that is very strong and conducts electricity
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A radioactive type of carbon used to find how old dead plants and animals are
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A strong, hard metal made by adding carbon to iron for tools and knives
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A thin sheet coated with dark wax that makes a copy when placed between papers
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A colorless toxic liquid once used to clean things or put out fires, now avoided because it harms the body
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A poisonous clear liquid that easily catches fire and dissolves rubber used to make rayon and cellophane
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A form of carbon with many tiny holes used to trap impurities from air, water, or the body
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A way to find how old something that used to live is by measuring its radioactive carbon
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Electricity between two carbon rods makes very bright light and strong heat
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A colorless liquid once used to clean things that is poisonous and now rarely used
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An electric lamp that makes very bright light by an arc of electricity between two carbon rods
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When the lungs cannot remove carbon dioxide, too much builds up in the blood and makes it acidic
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A process in hot stars where carbon helps hydrogen join to form helium
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A person who prefers energy from oil and coal to renewable energy
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A type of atom like carbon, silicon, tin, or lead found in Group 14 of the periodic table
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A molecule that has one carbon atom and four atoms like fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine
How Metallic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Carbon comes from the Latin carbo meaning 'coal' or 'charcoal'. Think of this element as the 'coal' inside many materials, which is why diamonds and graphite are forms of carbon and it is found in all living things.