άνθρακας — meaning in English
anthrakas
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English meaning
- anthrax noun A serious infectious disease, caused by a bacterium, that mainly affects livestock like cattle and sheep but can also infect humans.
- carbon noun A chemical element (symbol C) found in all living things and in materials like coal, diamond, and graphite.
- char verb To burn something so that its surface turns black, or to burn it down to charcoal.
- coal noun A black or dark brown rock, formed from ancient plant matter, burned as fuel.
Senses
άνθρακας is used for these senses in English:
- anthrax (pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
- carbon (uncountable) 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.
- carbon A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
- carbon (ecology, climate change, uncountable) Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
- char A charred substance.