a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper
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Examples of carbon paper
carbon paper
The binding agent keeps the carbon particles in suspension and adhered to paper.
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Bills were written on typewriters using carbon paper, not generated by computers.
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Typists at first resisted carbon paper, thinking it would threaten their jobs.
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When it came your turn, the clerk made you fill out a form with carbon paper.
From the washingtonpost.com
Typed across a pale blue piece of carbon paper was the name Walter McDonald.
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We were still one of the world's leading users of carbon paper and Wite-Out.
From the sacbee.com
For those youngsters here, carbon paper was kind of a messy way to duplicate things.
From the washingtonpost.com
It is usually made of platinum powder very thinly coated onto carbon paper or cloth.
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Thank goodness, then, that faxes are now going the way of the typewriter and carbon paper.
From the economist.com
