Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of, containing, relating to, or yielding carbon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or consisting of carbon; containing carbon or coaly matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, rich in, or yielding
carbon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon
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Examples
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If the bombardment involved not only comets but also a bunch of these wet meteorites, called carbonaceous chondrites, then the overall deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio of the water raining down from the heavens could have been about right for forming today's oceans and lakes.
Earth contains a vast amount of water, but scientists are unsure of its origins Ben Harder 2010
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To help confirm if any nucleobases seen in meteorites were of extraterrestrial origin, scientists used the latest scientific analysis techniques on samples from a dozen meteorites - 11 organic-rich meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites and one ureilite, a very rare type of meteorite with a different chemical composition.
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To help confirm if any nucleobases seen in meteorites were of extraterrestrial origin, scientists used the latest scientific analysis techniques on samples from a dozen meteorites - 11 organic-rich meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites and one ureilite, a very rare type of meteorite with a different chemical composition.
FOXNews.com Charles Q. Choi 2011
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Andrew Scott of Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham, United Kingdom, and colleagues used four kinds of microscopy to take a closer look at the odd debris, known as carbonaceous spherules.
News Richard A. Kerr 2010
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Sunlight reflecting from the surface showed that Phobos was dark, absorbing more than 90 per cent of the incoming sunlight and resembling the meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites.
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The cloud contains black particles called carbonaceous aerosols-basically carbon soot.
歪酷博客 Ycool Blog 2009
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Over the last four years, the team carefully analyzed samples of meteorites with an abundance of carbon, called carbonaceous chondrites.
innovations-report 2009
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Krypton in today's atmosphere is somewhat heavier than solar krypton, and the krypton embedded in meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites is even heavier than that.
Scientific American 2009
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Over the last four years, the team carefully analyzed samples of meteorites with an abundance of carbon, called carbonaceous chondrites.
Scientific Blogging 2009
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The cloud contains black particles called carbonaceous aerosols-basically carbon soot.
Scientific American 2009
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