1956 V. E. Yarsley & E. G. Couzens 104 Silicones may..be thought of as half-way between carbon-based plastics and silicon-based rocks.
1993 24 Jan. 20/1 Propose an $80-per-ton fee on carbon-based fuels to help stabilize emissions of greenhouse gases.
2002 J. Cohen & I. Stewart iv. 65 Naive astrobiologists take a rigid line and act as if the only possible kind of life is carbon-based with DNA heredity.