How do you use Carbonaceous in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like carbonic or carboniferous, plus the exact meaning.
Carbonaceous in a sentence
Carbonaceous meaning
Of, relating to, rich in, or yielding carbon, or a compound of carbon.
Synonyms of Carbonaceous
Using Carbonaceous
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, relating to, rich in, or yielding carbon, or a compound of carbon.
- Useful related words include: carbonous, carbonic, carboniferous, chemical element.
- In the example corpus, carbonaceous often appears in combinations such as: carbonaceous chondrites, carbonaceous material, carbonaceous chondrite.
Context around Carbonaceous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Carbonaceous
- In this selection, "carbonaceous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, although, pyrite, minor, chondrites, material and chondrite stand out and add context to how "carbonaceous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include although carbonaceous chondrites are and and minor carbonaceous material coal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "carbonaceous" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with carbonaceous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There are three major types: enstatite chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites and ordinary chondrites. (12 words)
Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid — a class of asteroids that contain a high amount of carbon. (16 words)
To make the task more difficult, carbonaceous chondrites are rather sooty and therefore very hard to detect. (17 words)
Rather the dissolved uranium moves through the sand pore spaces with the saline groundwater within sand layers until it encounters a reducing medium (e.g. pyrite, carbonaceous matter) when the uranium deposits out around the sand grains. (37 words)
Rhyolite clasts in the breccia are set in a matrix of very-fine sooty pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcedonic quartz, open-space vugs and minor carbonaceous material (coal), suggesting a shallow subaqueous environment. (31 words)
The carbon content of the soil is eventually returned to the atmosphere through the process of respiration carried out by heterotrophic organisms that feed upon the carbonaceous material in the soil. (31 words)
Example sentences (16)
Although carbonaceous chondrites are thought to be rare, some are very large and the suspected " dinosaur-killer " may have been a carbonaceous chondrite.
Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid — a class of asteroids that contain a high amount of carbon.
Mineralisation is commonly associated with hematitic alteration of felspathic medium to coarse grained sandstones and is spatially associated with carbonaceous and graphitic shales.
Rather the dissolved uranium moves through the sand pore spaces with the saline groundwater within sand layers until it encounters a reducing medium (e.g. pyrite, carbonaceous matter) when the uranium deposits out around the sand grains.
Compositionally, its chemical makeup is similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, which represent some of the oldest known meteorites in the solar system.
Rhyolite clasts in the breccia are set in a matrix of very-fine sooty pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcedonic quartz, open-space vugs and minor carbonaceous material (coal), suggesting a shallow subaqueous environment.
Composition The current belt consists primarily of three categories of asteroids: C-type or carbonaceous asteroids, S-type or silicate asteroids, and M-type or metallic asteroids.
Ordinary chondrites contain on average 2.1% sulfur, and carbonaceous chondrites may contain as much as 6.6%.
Pallas's surface is most likely composed of a silicate material; its spectrum and estimated density resemble carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.
The carbonaceous material in an archeological sample is treated with lithium metal in a small specialized research furnace to form lithium carbide (also known as lithium acetylide).
The carbon content of the soil is eventually returned to the atmosphere through the process of respiration carried out by heterotrophic organisms that feed upon the carbonaceous material in the soil.
The dark component is probably due to the infall of carbonaceous material, whereas the bright component is the original Vesta basaltic soil.
Their texture can likewise be very variable, including fleshy, like charcoal (carbonaceous), leathery, rubbery, gelatinous, slimy, powdery, or cob-web-like.
There are three major types: enstatite chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites and ordinary chondrites.
The seeds characteristically have the external epidermis either obliterated (in most species bearing fleshy fruit), or if present, have a layer of black carbonaceous phytomelanin in species with dry fruits (nuts).
To make the task more difficult, carbonaceous chondrites are rather sooty and therefore very hard to detect.
Common combinations with carbonaceous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: