What is "carbonaceous"

Usage examples of "carbonaceous".

Porphyritic tuffs and massive limestone compose the western chain of the Andes above Lima, while in the Oroya Valley we find carbonaceous sandstones.

Lora, looked like any other dull carbonaceous chondrite from the outside, after all.

The meteorite was of a rare type known as a carbonaceous chondrite, and the townspeople helpfully collected and brought in some two hundred pounds of it.

A swarm of Utopian asteroids was closing on her, brain clans and mining DIs living in hollowed-out chunks of carbonaceous chondrite, any one of which could have mustered enough votes to abolish Mada in all ten dimensions.

Bioengineered bacteria converted carbonaceous materials into hydrocarbon fuel for the shuttle engines.

Mars' two demonic moons, errant carbonaceous asteroids, were destined to attract both men and women.

Except at some time in the distant past it had struck a carbonaceous chondritic asteroid.

At the other end of the scale, space activists dreamt of capturing both nickel-iron and carbonaceous chondritic asteroids and using them in combination to build cylindrical O'Neill colonies, twenty kilometres long, orbiting Gardens of Eden, revitalizing the Earth physically and spiritually.

Our one whatever it was, Lora, looked like any other dull carbonaceous chondrite from the outside, after all.

ESA probe about ten years later, and found to be a carbonaceous chondrite.

In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable.

A lean, compact man with a hard, dark face, his eyes the dead-black color of carbonaceous meteors.

Barely a kilometer long and half that at its widest, it was a dark carbonaceous body, a loose aggregation of pebble-sized chondrules, more like a beanbag than a solid rock.

Seams of carbonaceous dirt and rusty conglomerates made curly, mysterious patterns on the broad stretches of black ice, like writing by some unseen biblical hand.

But Spencer was pretty good at rock ID, and he collected several samples that he said were exotic carbonaceous chondrite, very likely to be pieces of the impact rock.