Definitions for carbonaceous

carbonaceous car·bo·na·ceous

Spelling: [kahr-buh-ney-shuh s]
IPA: /ˌkɑr bəˈneɪ ʃəs/

Carbonaceous is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 968 anagrams from letters in carbonaceous (aabccenoorsu).

Definitions for carbonaceous

adjective

  1. of, like, or containing carbon.

Origin of carbonaceous

First recorded in 1785-95; carbon + -aceous

Examples for carbonaceous

Amorphous graphite is formed in many places where coal and other carbonaceous materials have undergone extreme metamorphism.

I could not expect shells, for they never occur in this formation; but lignite or carbonaceous shale ought to be found.

From the above experiments it is inferred that a supply of carbonaceous matter does not increase the crop of barley.

Because they secrete a carbonaceous matter, named chlorophyll, from which they derive their green colour.

In conclusion, I will remind you that our digestion is exercised on two sorts of food,—nitrogenous food and carbonaceous food.

The blacks and browns were mixtures of carbonaceous matter, with the ores of iron or manganese.

Now it isn't quite the same, I admit, with the carbonaceous food of plants.

The ores of iron, which are all oxides, are reduced by exposing them to the action of carbonaceous matter, at a high temperature.

The bulk of the grain was corn in the carbonaceous, and wheat in the nitrogenous ration.

Next in point of altitude, is the series of dark, carbonaceous, shelly slate rock.

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