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Carbon paper

Carbon paper, the meaning of the carbon paper in 'Pulp and Paper Manufacture', 2nd edn., volume II which has been described as follows: Carbon paper is made by coating paper with a mixture consisting principally of a wax and a pigment. The colour is obtained from the pigment, usually a carbon black of low oil absorption, plus toners, usually lake pigments or oil-soluble dyes, which are added to increase the blackness, Collector of Central Excise v. Krishna Carbon Paper Co., (1989) 1 SCC 150: AIR 1988 SC 2223 (2227). [Central Excise and Salt Act (1 of 1944) Sch. 1]...


Carbon

An elementary substance not metallic in its nature which is present in all organic compounds Atomic weight 1197 Symbol C it is combustible and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal and enters largely into mineral coals In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond the hardest of known substances occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron etc Another modification is graphite or blacklead and in this it is soft and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide commonly called carbonic acid or carbonic oxide according to the proportions of the oxygen when united with hydrogen it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons Compare Diamond and Graphite...


Carbonic

Of pertaining to or obtained from carbon as carbonic oxide...


Carbon process

A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing the unexposed portions being dissolved away If the process stops here it is called single transfer if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print the method is called double transfer...


carbon 14

a radioactive isotope of carbon with a half life of 5730 years It occurs naturally in minute quantities and is used as the basis for radiocarbon dating...


Carbonate

A salt or carbonic acid as in limestone some forms of lead ore etc...


Carbonated

Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid...


Carbonization

The act or process of carbonizing...


Carbonize

To convert an animal or vegetable substance into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent to char...


carbonous

relating to containing or rich in carbon...


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