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黑碳

hēi tàn

2-character word

What 黑碳 means

1. (climatology) black carbon (BC) (light-absorbing carbonaceous particulate matter formed by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels, biomass etc)

The characters in 黑碳

• 黑hēiblack; dark; sinister
• 碳tàncarbon (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read hēi tàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 黑炭coal; charcoal; (of skin) darkly pigmented

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