Carbon

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.

Carbon is the most common element in our bodies—indeed, in all living things on earth.

Fans will pump air through the alkaline stream, which causes carbon dioxide to form solid calcium carbonate, the material from which seashells are formed, which will look like a fine sand, as well as dissolved bicarbonate.

A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.

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.

Please provide me with a carbon of your form.

Press firmly: you are making a carbon.

Every morning she cleaned the carbon from the lamp chimneys.

When you overhaul an engine, you need to remove the carbon from around the valve seats. The carbon buildup can be extensive.

carbon neutral

carbon capture

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.

To trim an arc lamp, first remove the old carbons and carefully and thoroughly wipe the carbon rods, holders, &c. with a clean, dry rag.

carbon bike frame

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