Carbonos

Carbonos is a term that appears in several contexts but is not a standard technical term in core scientific disciplines. In Romance-language contexts, especially Spanish and Portuguese, carbono means carbon and carbonos is the plural form, used simply to refer to carbon or carbon-containing substances depending on the sentence. In these languages, carbonos can denote elements, compounds, or materials where carbon is a primary component, with meaning determined by adjacent words.

In English-language science writing, carbonos is rarely used as a technical term. When encountered, it is typically a transliteration artifact, a translation of non-English sources, or occur in fiction or speculative texts rather than in formal chemistry or geology. Consequently, there is no agreed-upon definition in standard reference works.

Some non-mainstream or speculative writers have proposed the term carbonos to designate a class of carbon-rich materials with specific properties (for example, networks of carbon atoms with unusual bonding or stability). However, such proposals have not achieved broad adoption and are not part of established nomenclature. In formal contexts, scientists refer to carbon compounds, carbon allotropes (such as graphite, diamond, fullerenes, graphene), or carbon-based materials. See also: Carbon, Organic chemistry, Carbon allotropes, Carbon-based materials, Graphene.