CARBON ATOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbon atom mean? 

• CARBON ATOM (noun)
  The noun CARBON ATOM has 1 sense:

1. an atom of carbon

  Familiarity information: CARBON ATOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARBON ATOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An atom of carbon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("carbon atom" is a kind of...):

atom ((physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element)

 Context examples 

Organometallic compounds are substances that have a metal bonding with at least one carbon atom of an organic molecule.

(Mango leaf extract can stop ships from rusting, SciDev.Net)

Alcohol contains a carbon atom attached to a hydroxyl group (a molecule made of an oxygen atom and a hydrogen atom).

(Alcohol, NCI Dictionary)

Carotenoid having a chemical structure similar to beta-carotene with addition of a hydroxyl group at the number 3 carbon atom.

(Beta-cryptoxanthin, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Alcohols are classified according to the position of the carbon atom with the attached hydroxyl group (i.e. primary alcohols are alcohols with the OH group attached to the primary carbon atom, C1).

(Alcohol [Chemical Class], NCI Thesaurus)

An organic compound with a cyclic or non-cyclic structure with single, double bonds or both that contains the monovalent group, -NO2, linked to a carbon atom and exposure to one of these compounds may increase human cancer risk.

(Nitro-compound Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the alternatives is the use of bisphenol S (BPS), which has a molecular structure similar to that of BPA but introducing a sulfur atom (S) instead of a carbon atom (C) in its formula.

(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)

The new study shows that water can form when carbon and oxygen are present in equal amounts. (Carbon monoxide contains one carbon atom and one oxygen atom.) And while some carbon dioxide (one carbon and two oxygen atoms) formed without the addition of UV radiation, the reactions accelerated with the addition of simulated starlight.

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)

Cyanide, a carbon atom bound to a nitrogen atom, is thought to be crucial for the origin of life, as it is involved in the non-biological synthesis of organic compounds like amino acids and nucleobases, which are the building blocks of proteins and nucleic acids used by all known forms of life.

(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)