That would lead to the production of more carbon dioxide, the main gas responsible for global warming.
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Carbon
//ˈkɑɹ.bən//
Synonyms for "carbon" (96 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (48)
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3 entriesMore specific
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
at location
1 entriescapable of
3 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
148 entriesShowing 16 of 148 words.
has context
2 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
6 entriesrelated to
34 entriesShowing 16 of 34 words.
Translations
250 translations across 123 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- koolstof noun (chemical element)
Albanian
2 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
- karboni noun (chemical element)
Arabic
1 entries- كَرْبُون noun (chemical element)
Armenian
1 entries- ածխածին noun (chemical element)
Asturian
1 entries- carbonu noun (chemical element)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
- uqlerod noun (chemical element)
- بموادالفحم noun (chemical element)
- مولدالفحم noun (chemical element)
Banyumasan
1 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
Basque
1 entries- karbonoa noun (chemical element)
Belarusian
2 entries- вуглец noun (chemical element)
- вугляро́д noun (chemical element)
Bengali
1 entries- অঙ্গার noun (chemical element)
Breton
2 entries- glaou noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- karbon noun (chemical element)
Bulgarian
4 entries- въ́глища noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- въглеро́д noun (chemical element)
- въглеро́ден диокси́д noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- въглерод noun (atom of this element)
Burmese
1 entries- ကာဗွန် noun (chemical element)
Catalan
2 entries- carboni noun (chemical element)
- carbó noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Central Franconian
1 entries- Kohlenstoff noun (chemical element)
Chinese
2 entries- 炭素 noun (chemical element)
- 碳 noun (chemical element)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 碳 noun (chemical element)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 煤 noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- 碳 noun (chemical element)
Cornish
1 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
Corsican
1 entries- carboniu noun (chemical element)
Czech
3 entries- kopírák noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
- uhlí noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- uhlík noun (chemical element)
Danish
4 entries- carbon noun (chemical element)
- kalkerpapir noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
- karbon noun (chemical element)
- karbonpapir noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
Dutch
4 entries- doorslag noun (informal: carbon copy)
- kool noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- koolstof noun (chemical element)
- koolstofdioxide noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 碳 noun (chemical element)
Erzya
1 entries- седь noun (chemical element)
Esperanto
1 entries- karbono noun (chemical element)
Estonian
4 entries- süsi noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- süsihappegaas noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- süsinik noun (chemical element)
- süsinikdioksiid noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
Farefare
3 entries- bugsãan-kugre noun (chemical element)
- bugsãan-kugre noun (chemical element)
- bugsãane-kugre noun (chemical element)
Faroese
1 entries- kolevni noun (chemical element)
Finnish
4 entries- hiili noun (chemical element)
- hiili noun (atom of this element)
- hiili noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- hiili noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
French
3 entries- carbone noun (chemical element)
- carbone noun (informal: carbon copy)
- charbon noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Friulian
1 entries- carboni noun (chemical element)
Galician
1 entries- carbono noun (chemical element)
Georgian
1 entries- ნახშირბადი noun (chemical element)
German
4 entries- Durchschlag noun (informal: carbon copy)
- Kohle noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- Kohlendioxid noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- Kohlenstoff noun (chemical element)
Greek
4 entries- άνθρακας noun (chemical element)
- διοξείδιο noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- κάρβουνο noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- καρμπόν noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
Gujarati
1 entries- કાર્બન noun (chemical element)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- kabòn noun (chemical element)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 碳 noun (chemical element)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kalepona noun (chemical element)
Hebrew
1 entries- פַּחְמָן noun (chemical element)
Hindi
3 entries- कारबन noun (chemical element)
- कार्बन noun (chemical element)
- प्रांगार noun (chemical element)
Hungarian
4 entries- indigó noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
- indigómásolat noun (informal: carbon copy)
- másolat noun (informal: carbon copy)
- másolópapír noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
Icelandic
2 entries- kolefni noun (chemical element)
- kolefnis pappír noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
Ido
1 entries- karbo noun (chemical element)
Indonesian
2 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
- zat arang noun (chemical element)
Ingrian
1 entries- ugleroda noun (chemical element)
Interlingua
2 entries- carbon noun (chemical element)
- carbon noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐸᐅᖅ noun (chemical element)
Irish
2 entries- carbón noun (chemical element)
- páipéar carbóin noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
Italian
1 entries- carbonio noun (chemical element)
Japanese
4 entries- カーボンコピー noun (informal: carbon copy)
- 炭 noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- 炭素 noun (chemical element)
- 石炭 noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Javanese
1 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
Kannada
1 entries- ಇಂಗಾಲ noun (chemical element)
Kashubian
1 entries- wãdźel noun (chemical element)
Kazakh
1 entries- көміртек noun (chemical element)
Khmer
2 entries- កាបូន noun (chemical element)
- ការបោន noun (chemical element)
Korean
2 entries- 카아본지 noun (informal: carbon copy)
- 탄소 noun (chemical element)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- көмүртек noun (chemical element)
- углерод noun (chemical element)
Lao
1 entries- ຄາບອນ noun (chemical element)
Latin
2 entries- carbo noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- carbonium noun (chemical element)
Latvian
2 entries- ogle noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- ogleklis noun (chemical element)
Limburgish
1 entries- koolstof noun (chemical element)
Lingala
1 entries- kaboni noun (chemical element)
Lithuanian
1 entries- anglis noun (chemical element)
Lombard
1 entries- carbòni noun (chemical element)
Low German
1 entries- kohlenstoff noun (chemical element)
Luhya
1 entries- ekaboni noun (chemical element)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Kuelestoff noun (chemical element)
Macedonian
1 entries- јаглерод noun (chemical element)
Malay
2 entries- arang noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- karbon noun (chemical element)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഇംഗാലം noun (chemical element)
- കാർബണ് noun (chemical element)
Maltese
1 entries- karbonju noun (chemical element)
Manx
1 entries- carboan noun (chemical element)
Marathi
1 entries- कार्बन noun (chemical element)
Mongolian
2 entries- нүүрстөрөгч noun (chemical element)
- ᠨᠡᠭᠦᠷᠡᠰᠦᠲᠥᠷᠥᠭᠴᠢ noun (chemical element)
Māori
1 entries- waro noun (chemical element)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tecolli noun (chemical element)
Navajo
1 entries- káábin noun (chemical element)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
Norwegian
4 entries- blåkopi noun (informal: carbon copy)
- blåpapir noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
- karbon noun (chemical element)
- kull noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
Occitan
1 entries- carbòni noun (chemical element)
Odia
1 entries- ଅଙ୍ଗାରକ noun (chemical element)
Pashto
1 entries- کاربون noun (chemical element)
Persian
1 entries- کربن noun (chemical element)
Polish
4 entries- dwutlenek węgla noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- kalka noun (informal: carbon copy)
- węgiel noun (chemical element)
- węgiel noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Portuguese
4 entries- carbono noun (chemical element)
- carbono noun (informal: carbon copy)
- carbono noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- carvão noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕਾਰਬਨ noun (chemical element)
Quechua
1 entries- k'illimsayaq noun (chemical element)
Romanian
3 entries- carbon noun (chemical element)
- copie la indigo noun (informal: carbon copy)
- cărbune noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Russian
4 entries- двуо́кись углеро́да noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- копи́рка noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
- у́голь noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- углеки́слый газ noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
Samogitian
1 entries- onglis noun (chemical element)
Sanskrit
2 entries- कौकिलीय noun (chemical element)
- प्राङ्गार noun (chemical element)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- gual noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- gualan noun (chemical element)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kàrbōn noun (chemical element)
- ugljenik noun (chemical element)
- ùgljīk noun (chemical element)
- ćùmur noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Sicilian
1 entries- carbòniu noun (chemical element)
Slovak
4 entries- kopirák noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
- uhlie noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- uhlík noun (chemical element)
- uhlík noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
Slovene
1 entries- ogljik noun (chemical element)
Spanish
3 entries- carbono noun (chemical element)
- carbón noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- papel carbón noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
Sundanese
1 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
Swahili
1 entries- kaboni noun (chemical element)
Swedish
4 entries- genomslagskopia noun (informal: carbon copy)
- kol noun (chemical element)
- kol noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- kolatom noun (atom of this element)
Tagalog
1 entries- karbono noun (chemical element)
Tajik
2 entries- карбон noun (chemical element)
- углерод noun (chemical element)
Tamil
4 entries- கரி noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
- கரிமக் காகிதம் noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
- கரிமம் noun (chemical element)
- கார்பன் noun (chemical element)
Telugu
2 entries- అచ్చు కాగితం noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
- కార్బన్ noun (chemical element)
Thai
1 entries- คาร์บอน noun (chemical element)
Tibetan
1 entries- སོལ་རྫས noun (chemical element)
Turkish
2 entries- karbon noun (chemical element)
- kömür noun (fossil fuel made of impure carbon)
Turkmen
1 entries- uglerod noun (chemical element)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вугле́ць noun (chemical element)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- wuhlik noun (chemical element)
Uyghur
1 entries- كاربون noun (chemical element)
Uzbek
1 entries- uglerod noun (chemical element)
Venetan
1 entries- carbonio noun (chemical element)
Vietnamese
4 entries- anhiđrít cacbonic noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- cacbon noun (chemical element)
- cacbon điôxít noun (ecology: carbon dioxide)
- giấy than noun (informal: a sheet of carbon paper)
Volapük
1 entries- karbin noun (chemical element)
Walloon
1 entries- carbone noun (chemical element)
Welsh
2 entries- carbon noun (chemical element)
- ulwyn noun (chemical element)
West-Frisian
1 entries- koalstof noun (chemical element)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 碳 noun (chemical element)
Yiddish
1 entries- קוילנשטאָף noun (chemical element)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.
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Coal consists mostly of carbon.
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The differing volumes of carbon emissions are plotted in the graph below.
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