carbon atom

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   an atom of carbon

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Questions about carbon atom

What does carbon atom mean?

carbon atom means "an atom of carbon".

Is carbon atom a common word?

carbon atom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.