carbon

Noun

• a copy made with carbon paper

• a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper

• an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  carbon copy , carbon paper , C , atomic number 6