carbon paper
noun
: a thin paper faced with a waxy pigmented coating so that when placed between two sheets of paper the pressure of writing or typing on the top sheet causes transfer of pigment to the bottom sheet
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Until 2024, trades were processed manually — written by hand, on paper, using carbon paper to make copies in triplicate.
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Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
And blacks like scraps of carbon paper This obsessive recalibration, typical of McCrae’s work, uses language to explore language’s limits, insisting that words can do no more than approximate a place beyond our comprehension: poetry as the pain scale.
—Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
For example, carbon paper is conductive but is prone to flooding with the electrolyte fluid that is used to bring the CO2 to the electrode.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
This allowed the writer to transfer their work over to the thinner carbon paper.
—USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
Thanks to his recreations, visitors like myself can make rubbings using carbon paper without damaging the original pieces of artwork.
—Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
If your dentist does not have a T-Scan occlusal analysis system, he or she is limited to using articulating paper (a type of carbon paper) to adjust occlusion and bite interferences.
—Dr. Tom A. Stamas, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
Entering the former Emigrant Savings Bank on Chambers Street feels like slipping into the hoary past, and not just because some of us can barely remember cash, let alone savings passbooks and carbon paper.
—Curbed, 14 Sep. 2022
Everything was on hard copy with carbon paper duplicates.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 19 June 2022
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Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
And blacks like scraps of carbon paper This obsessive recalibration, typical of McCrae’s work, uses language to explore language’s limits, insisting that words can do no more than approximate a place beyond our comprehension: poetry as the pain scale.
—Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
For example, carbon paper is conductive but is prone to flooding with the electrolyte fluid that is used to bring the CO2 to the electrode.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
This allowed the writer to transfer their work over to the thinner carbon paper.
—USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
Thanks to his recreations, visitors like myself can make rubbings using carbon paper without damaging the original pieces of artwork.
—Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
If your dentist does not have a T-Scan occlusal analysis system, he or she is limited to using articulating paper (a type of carbon paper) to adjust occlusion and bite interferences.
—Dr. Tom A. Stamas, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
Entering the former Emigrant Savings Bank on Chambers Street feels like slipping into the hoary past, and not just because some of us can barely remember cash, let alone savings passbooks and carbon paper.
—Curbed, 14 Sep. 2022
Everything was on hard copy with carbon paper duplicates.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 19 June 2022
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“Carbon paper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20paper. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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