Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

Verb

The word "carbon" can be used as noun, proper noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

organic matter

Capable Of

cake hard form diamonds like nearly every other element

Defined As

base of dna

Derived Terms

Carboloy Carbon County Carbon Oil anticarbon benzyloxycarbonyl biocarbon carb carbapenem carbazotic acid carbinol carbinyl carbo carbogen carbon anhydride carbon arc carbon audit carbon bisulfide carbon bisulphide carbon black carbon budget carbon burning carbon capture carbon chauvinism carbon chauvinist carbon chloride carbon copy carbon cost carbon credit carbon cycle carbon dating carbon debt carbon detonation carbon dioxid carbon dioxide carbon dioxide equivalent carbon dioxide snow carbon dioxide-equivalent carbon diselenide carbon disulfide carbon disulphide carbon emissions trading carbon fiber carbon fibre carbon fixation carbon footprint carbon group carbon inset carbon insetting carbon leakage carbon literacy carbon market carbon microphone carbon monofluoride carbon monoxide carbon nanofiber carbon nanofibre carbon nanofoam carbon nanotube carbon negative carbon neutrality carbon number carbon offset carbon offsetting carbon oxide carbon oxychloride carbon oxysulfide carbon oxysulphide carbon paper carbon planet carbon print carbon printing carbon process carbon resistor carbon sequestering carbon sequestration carbon sink carbon star carbon steel carbon subnitride carbon suboxide carbon tablet carbon tax carbon tet carbon tetrabromide carbon tetrachloride carbon tetrafluoride carbon tetraiodide carbon trade carbon trading carbon transmitter carbon-13 NMR carbon-based carbon-carbon bond carbon-copy carbon-date carbon-ferrous carbon-free carbon-intensive carbon-neutral carbon-nitrogen cycle carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle carbonate carbonation carbonian carbonic carbonide carbonific carbonification carbonise carbonite carbonization carbonize carbonless carbonlike carbonometer carbonosome carbonous carbonyl carbonæmia carborexia carborundum carboxide carboxyl carburet chromo-carbon chromocarbon cyanocarbon dicarbon halon hydrobromofluorocarbon intercarbon monocarbon multi-carbon nanocarbon nitrocarbol nitrocarbon noncarbon organocarbon oxocarbon perfluorocarbon petrocarbon polycarbon pyrocarbon sulfide of carbon sulphide of carbon tetracarbon thiocarbon zinc-carbon battery

Context

ecology internet

Has Property

essential to all known biological life

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

copy nonmetal paper

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Q-carbon activated carbon alpha carbon beta carbon nitride black carbon blind carbon copy blue carbon carbon-12 carbon-13 carbon-14 chlorocarbon chlorofluorocarbon ferrocarbon fluorocarbon fluorochlorohydrocarbon glassy carbon halocarbon hydrocarbon inorganic carbon radiocarbon sulphuretted carbon vegetable carbon

Type Of (IsA)

chemical chemical element copy element non metallic element solid

Related Terms

Carbon County Carbonari aggregated diamond nanorod amorphous carbon buckminsterfullerene carbonaceous carbonade carbonado carbonara carbonate carboniferous carbonify carbonigenous carbuncle ceraphite chaoite charcoal coal diamond fullerene graphene graphite lamp black lead lonsdaleite soot steel

Related Terms

arc lamp atomic atomic mass atomic number battery before before dioxide c carbon copy carbon dioxide carbon paper charcoal climate change coal copy dioxide element email fourteen gas global warming living mass matter organic organic matter pencil plate required required living rod unit unit fourteen voltaic

Synonym Network

carbon paper cc

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.