“Reducing coal consumption and promoting low-carbon life” are also “tan”. Why is there a difference between “carbon” and “char”? Why do you sometimes have "carbon materials" and sometimes "carbon materials" in newspapers and magazines? For professionals engaged in “carbon materials”, these are not problems, but some ordinary readers are often confused and sometimes confused. Therefore, the researcher will give an explanation before saying “carbon”.

 "Charcoal" is an ancient Chinese character. It was first seen in the post-Chinese "inscriptions". Before the appearance of "carbon", both natural charcoal (coal) and man-made charcoal (charcoal, coal) were used. "word. The word "carbon" was in the 1930s. With the development of modern natural sciences, especially the discovery and development of chemical elements, it appeared in China. At that time, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China clearly defined the elemental cycle in the "chemical naming principle". The "C" of the atomic number No. 6 in the table is named "carbon" in the non-metal type.

The words "Carbon" in English and "Carbon" in Japanese refer to both carbon and carbon. Materials and elements are two different concepts, and the use of the same word to express inevitability often causes confusion. The International Committee on Carbon Terminology and Characterization has suggested distinguishing between carbon as element and carbon as solid and suggesting some solutions, but it still does not solve the problem. Chinese characters have exactly the corresponding words "char" and "carbon", so we should follow the cultural advantages of these two Chinese characters very well.

 In short, all corresponding elements C and their related derivative derivatives use “carbon” such as carbon, carbon, carbon dioxide, carburizing, etc., while other substances and materials based on carbon are used. "Charcoal" such as coal, carbon black, coke, carbon fiber, etc.

"Carbonization" refers to a process in which carbon and carbonate are formed by CO2 in a solution, and "carbonization" refers to a process in which "carbon" is formed after pyrolysis of an organic substance;

"Carbon material" generally refers to materials formed by carbonization of organic matter, such as carbon fiber, carbon electrode, activated carbon, etc. "carbon material" refers to substances containing more than 99.9% of carbon elements, such as carbon nanotubes, carbon 60 and the like.

It is not difficult to understand that coal in the first sentence of this article should use “charcoal”, while low-carbon life refers to advocating the reduction of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide emissions in daily life. Of course, the word “carbon” should be used.