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carbon-intensive

carbon-intensive adjective: describing any process that has a high carbon footprint in relation to its economic importance.

Adjective

carbon-intensive (comparative more carbon-intensive, superlative most carbon-intensive)

  1. Describing any process that has a high carbon footprint in relation to its economic importance

Forms of carbon-intensive

comparativemore carbon-intensive
superlativemost carbon-intensive

Questions about carbon-intensive

What does carbon-intensive mean?
Carbon-intensive means describing any process that has a high carbon footprint in relation to its economic importance.
What part of speech is carbon-intensive?
Carbon-intensive is an adjective.

Words near carbon-intensive in the dictionary

  1. carbon-dated
  2. carbon-dates
  3. carbon-dating
  4. carbon-ferrous
  5. carbon-free
  6. carbon-intensive
  7. carbon-literate
  8. carbon-neutral
  9. carbon-nitrogen cycle
  10. carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle
  11. carbonaceous

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