carbons

plural of carbon

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of carbons The lipids used to make fats and the cell membrane are built up two carbons at a time. ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025 Instead of destroying the molecules (which is what most people thought would happen), the beam caused the hydrogens to detach and the carbons to link up, thereby slowly building up a diamond lattice. Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carbons
Noun
  • Lord entered the truck in competitions in Louisiana and Texas and loved to park it in front of the Henderson building to take pictures of it, Michelle said.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Some of my friends were pressured to send inappropriate pictures, contacted by strangers, and exposed to content way beyond our age.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Luminate reports the set sold 9,400 copies in the United States last frame, up from under 400 the period prior.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Calligraphers like Mustapha produce sacred work, such as copies of the Quran, books of religious poetry, and amulets.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The paper also highlights the potential of digital twins — virtual patient replicas that allow doctors to simulate treatments before applying them in real life.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Cadence has expanded this technology beyond chip design towards creating digital twins of data centers including all the functional components.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The chain of landforms to the west of Kauai is so small that it was not easily spotted in the satellite images taken as Kiko roared across the Pacific toward Hawaii as a Category 4 hurricane.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Miami Gardens Police released images of dogs in the neighborhood suspected to have been involved in the attack.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Generations of scientists have dedicated their careers to sculpting increasingly sophisticated planetary replicas.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The paper also highlights the potential of digital twins — virtual patient replicas that allow doctors to simulate treatments before applying them in real life.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brother Dusk detonates explosives that shatter the cryonic chamber of Cleon clones, bodies raining down in blood and glass, before plucking a single embryo from the wreckage to bait Demerzel’s deepest programming.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Weaver would return as Ripley in David Fincher's Alien 3 in 1992 and as clones of the character in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection in 1997, though the Alien franchise has continued on.
    Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Analysts like him would pore over positive duplicates of negatives, examining them under a micro-stereoscope to see sites in three dimensions.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Clean up messy data, remove duplicates and make sure everything follows a consistent format.
    Samuel Darwin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Highlights include intimate portraits by Nan Goldin and a monochrome image of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe during their hedonistic era in New York.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Her posts around this time were more often portraits of the outsized characters that dominate conservative politics than about actual policy.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Carbons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbons. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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