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carbone — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • carbon noun A chemical element (symbol C) found in all living things and in materials like coal, diamond, and graphite.
  • charcoal noun A black, carbon-rich material made by burning wood slowly without much oxygen, used as fuel or in cooking.
  • coal noun A black or dark brown rock, formed from ancient plant matter, burned as fuel.
  • smut noun Sexually explicit or crude material, especially writing, images, or jokes.

Senses

carbone is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • charcoal (countable, uncountable) impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
  • coal (uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
  • smut Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.

charcoal — full definition

  1. noun A black, carbon-rich material made by burning wood slowly without much oxygen, used as fuel or in cooking.
  2. noun A stick of compressed carbon used for drawing, or a drawing made with it.
  3. noun A very dark grey colour.

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