Chem. Combining form of CARBON, used before consonants, in names of carbon compounds.
1810. Henry, Elem. Chem. (1826), I. 468. The bi-sulphuret of carbon was found by Berzelius to be capable of … forming compounds which may be called Carbo-Sulphurets.
1873. Fownes’ Chem., 823. Carbo-cresylic and Cresotic Acids are formed simultaneously by the action of carbon dioxide and sodium on cresol.
