English Words: C
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Made of a composite material consisting of both carbon and ceramic, used in brakes and proppants in grinding and fracking.
An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing barium, calcium, carbon, cerium, oxygen, sodium, and strontium.
The chemistry of carbon, especially the chemical transformation of coal into industrially useful materials
Describing any complex, poorly-characterised organic compounds, derived from others by loss of various elements (especially hydrogen and oxygen), that are mostly carbon
A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant.
A mineral containing iron, aluminum, oxygen and hydrogen that is found in southern France.
A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing calcium, carbon, cerium, chlorine, hydrogen, lanthanum, manganese, neodymium, niobium, oxygen, potassium, praeseodymium, silicon, sodium, strontium, titanium, yttrium, and zirconium.
A mixture of phenol and basic fuchsin, used in bacterial staining and as a topical antiseptic and antifungal.
A phenol formaldehyde resin analogous to Bakelite used in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
A composite material consisting of tungsten carbide particles cemented into a cobalt or nickel binder, notable for its hardness and heat-resistance, used e.g. in cutters and machine tools.
An anion or compound containing carbon and one or metal atoms, where the amount of carbon exceeds the amount of metal.
An addition reaction in which an organometallic compound is added across a double bond or triple bond.
An instrument used to estimate the carbon content of steel by measuring its magnetic properties
An electrically conducting plastic sheet from which electronic circuits can be printed.
A crystalline macrolide antibiotic with the molecular formula C₄₂H₆₇NO₁₆, derived from the bacterium Streptomyces halstedii.
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.
The maximum cumulative amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions compatible with a given global-warming target (e.g., 1.5 °C), for a stated probability and from a stated baseline date.
A set of technologies designed to capture emissions of carbon dioxide from sources like power plants and industrial facilities before they enter the atmosphere.
A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.
The normal oxide of carbon, CO₂; a colorless, odorless gas formed during respiration and combustion and consumed by plants during photosynthesis.
A unit of measure of global warming potential denoting the mass of carbon dioxide that would have the same global warming effect as that of a given mass of some other given gas.
A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time.
A reduction in carbon dioxide emission by a third party purchased by a heavy carbon dioxide producer as part of carbon emissions trading.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter C contains 43,570 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 872 pages, and you are currently viewing page 84. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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