Definitions
A chemical element found in living things, coal, and diamonds.
Word origin
Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”). By surface analysis, carbo- + -on.
Used in a sentence
“All life as we know it has carbon as the backbone of many of its molecules; carbon’s tetravalence gives it special importance in biochemical molecular bonds.”
“Carbon is the most common element in our bodies—indeed, in all living things on earth.”
“A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.”
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01“Diamond element”6 letters
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