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carbonaceous

[ UK /kˌɑːbənˈe‍ɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon

How To Use carbonaceous In A Sentence

  • Coal is a sedimentary rock composed principally of carbonaceous macerals and inorganic minerals.
  • We disagree that charred fungal sclerotia ... have the same morphology" as certain carbonaceous spherules, paleoceanographer James Kennett writes in an e-mail. News
  • It was intruded into a succession of thinly bedded sandstones and carbonaceous silt and mudstones.
  • It is overlain by the lower shale member, which consists of interbedded carbonaceous shale and lignite that accumulated in coastal marsh and swamps landward of the shoreline.
  • It contains over 50 chest beds which are interbedded with shales, carbonaceous sandstones and minor tuffs.
  • This facies commonly occurs associated with carbonaceous shale and laminated sandstone.
  • The terms (_a_) "nitrogenous" and (_b_) "carbonaceous" are frequently used to designate the two distinct classes of food, viz.: (_a_) the tissue builders and flesh formers; (_b_) fuel and force producers. Public School Domestic Science
  • It has been identified in carbonaceous achondrite and iron meteorites.
  • Similarly, granting a carbonaceous object the strength of a stony asteroid would allow it to penetrate to comparable altitudes.
  • The quartzitic horizons change along strike into carbonaceous shale and sericite-chlorite schist.
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