HOW TO PRONOUNCE
carbon
/ˈkɑɹbən/
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Use two syllables, with an r sound after the first vowel. Keep the vowel following b light and unstressed, and finish with n without another vowel.
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“The lesson explains the carbon cycle.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does carbon mean?
noun
- 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.
- An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
- (informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
More meanings (15)
noun
- (informal) A carbon copy.
- A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
- Soot.
- Especially, hardened soot as a caked-on deposit.
- Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
- A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
- A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
- (informal) Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).
verb
- To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A village in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
- A town in Van Buren Township, Clay County, Indiana.
- A minor city and coal town in Douglas Township, Adams County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
- A town in Eastland County, Texas.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɑɹbən/
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It was now seen that the particles of carbon dust in contact which formed the button were a congeries of minute micro-phones.
Among these, not considering oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, there are the salts of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, sulphur and phosphorus.
More book examples (3)
I put the leg to soak for a quarter of an hour in disulphide of carbon, the best solvent of fatty matters.
Glaciers will be upon us sooner than we know unless we reverse intensification of atmospheric carbon dioxide by remineralization of the soil.
In this way the action of water, holding in solution carbon dioxid and other substances, tends to make the soil more fertile.