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Definition of Carbons

1. carbon [n] - See also: carbon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbons

Literary usage of Carbons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electricity in the Service of Man: A Popular and Practical Treatise on the by Alfred Urbanitzky, Richard Wormell (1886)
"carbons FOR ARC LAMPS AND THEIR PRODUCTION. These various lamps can only give satisfactory results when the carbons have all the properties required. ..."

2. Electricity in the Service of Man: A Popular and Practical Treatise on the by Alfred Urbanitzky, Richard Wormell (1886)
"carbons FOR ARC LAMPS AND THEIR PRODUCTION. These various lamps can only give satisfactory results when the carbons have all the properties required. ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The scries coil comes into action to withdraw the carbons, and at the same time locks the mechanism. The shunt coil then operates ..."

4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"If the carbons used in these lamps are at all impure, the impurities become ... Enclosed-arc carbons are therefore made principally of lampblack, ..."

5. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1892)
"DIFFERENT FORMS OF carbons USED IN ARC LIGHTING. In the period just preceding the introduction of the arc electric lighting commercially, experimenters and ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"The Drop of Potential at the carbons of the Electric Arc. -By Mrs. ... To find the fall of potential between each of the carbons and the arc a third carbon ..."

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