Organic or carbon-based compounds called super plasticizers have cut down on concrete's water content without reducing its fluid nature when wet.

Naturally occurring bacteria in organic matter emit chemicals, called enzymes, that enable them to feed on carbon-based compounds by oxidizing them.

With that much carbon-based compound suddenly transmuted into silicon, there might be a hellish lot of loose radiation in the air, and he wasn't taking any chances.

That means it is not a carbon-based compound.

We could indeed extend our theme of symbiosis, to suggest that modern life at its most fundamental is a co-operation between organic, carbon-based compounds, and water.

The carbon-based compounds causing the smog suggests a possible landscape dotted with ethane lakes and tarlike hydrocarbon deposits.

This instrument, when set to kill, coagulates proteins, which are carbon-based compounds.

Streaks across the flat terrain may be dunes of windblown carbon-based compounds, what passes for topsoil on Titan.

The contaminants that pollute the indoor environment are almost entirely based upon organic or carbon-based compounds.

Total organic carbon is an indirect measure of pollution and refers to all carbon-based organic compounds, which can range from harmless carbohydrates to toxic petrochemicals.