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carbon atom

NOUN
  1. an atom of carbon

How To Use carbon atom In A Sentence

  • Zinc atoms have a looser hold on their electrons than carbon atoms do. The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
  • AGB stars in which the abundance of carbon atoms exceeds that of oxygen atoms have chemistries dominated by carbon and are known as carbon stars.
  • The pentose sugars, whose molecules contain only five carbon atoms instead of six, caramelize very well.
  • Rubber gum is made up mostly of a hydrocarbon polymer called polyisoprene, the chains of which are composed only of interlinked carbon atoms with some hydrogen atoms attached.
  • Many materials scientists predict that the tiny, hollow cylinders of carbon atoms known as carbon nanotubes will eventually lead to a new generation of supersmall transistors.
  • It was there I got my introduction to optical isomerism and the tetrahedral carbon atom. William S. Knowles - Autobiography
  • A trivalent carbon atom and a divalent hydrogen atom: who changed the rules without warning me? [eyewatch 1227] how stupid are people these days
  • They used energetic particles in a plasma to knock, or sputter, carbon atoms from a graphite surface, forming a carbon vapor.
  • When assigning priority to groups, atoms that are directly bonded to the carbon atom have their priority based upon their atomic number.
  • Following these discoveries Ruzicka and his co-workers were able to prepare the whole series of alicyclic ketones with 9 to over 30 carbon atoms as ring members, compounds that had previously been believed to be incapable to existence. Leopold Ruzicka - Biography
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