1855 E. L. Youmans vi. 52 Carbon..exists in every organized substance; so that this branch of the science has been defined as the chemistry of carbon compounds.
1907 G. M. Norman ii. 96 The Carius method for estimating halogens in carbon compounds.
1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz (ed. 3) i. 59/1 Halophils abide in a variety of newly discovered hypersaline environments, taking in as food a variety of carbon compounds.