- CO2, carbon ... - Gas, carbon ... - An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule;
binoxide. - An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen
to two of a metal; a suboxide.
- of Carburet - Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or
carbide. - Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon
compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating
power.
- A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like
it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having
twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
- Not combustible; not capable of being burned,
decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an
incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas.
- Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or
forced. - Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid
by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical point; -- also
particularly of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide,
formerly regarded as incapable of liquefaction at any temperature or
pressure. - That can note be confined in, or excluded from,
vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable
fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.