English Explanatory Dictionary

black carbon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Elemental carbon in the form of very fine graphite particulates, a major component of soot.

Word forms

black carbon

Etymology

Coined by American physicist Tihomir Novakov in 1980.

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