Carbonite (online Backup)
Carbonite may refer to: * Carbonite (explosive), one of the earliest and most successful coal-mining explosives * Carbonite (ion), the inorganic anion that form conjugate base of dihydroxymethylidene with the chemical formula O2sup>2− * Carbonite (online backup), an online backup service * Carbonite (Star Wars), a fictional substance, most notably used to imprison Han Solo in the film ''The Empire Strikes Back'' * Carbonite-2 The Defence Intelligence Fusion Centre (DIFC) is based at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire. Largely created from the staff of the National Imagery Exploitation Centre (formerly known as the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC)) and th ...

Carbonite (explosive)
Carbonite was one of the earliest and most successful coal-mining explosives. It is made from such ingredients as nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate as that of sodium; also nitrobenzene, sulfur, and diatomaceous earth. Carbonite was invented by Bichel of Schmidt and Bichel. The term Carbonite can refer to these things: * least commonly, an early explosive from Schmidt and Bichel made of sulphuretted tar oil, nitrocumene, and sodium nitrate,The Manufacture of Explosives, Oscar Guttman, p. 231 * dynamite made to the specific Carbonite recipe and sold by Schmidt and Bichel under that name, or * an entire class of spin-offs of the original recipe (Arctic Carbonite, Ammonkarbonit, etc.); their common feature is that the percentage of combustible materials ( wood meal or flour starch) is so high that most of the carbon in the reaction is bound into carbon monoxide and the temperature of combustion Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox c ...
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Carbonite (ion)
The carbonite ion is the double ionized ion of dihydroxymethylidene, with the chemical formula: . Alkali metal salts, such as , , and , have been observed at 15  K. Due to the lone pair on the carbon atom, salts of the carbonite ion would be protonated to form formate and formic acid, rather than the carbene. At lower metal concentrations, salts of the monovalent anions were favored over . Carbonite was not detected when sodium was used as the metal. The alkali metal carbonites obtained in the cryogenic experiments decomposed to the corresponding carbonate (with release of carbon monoxide) or oxalate. The carbonite ion is promptly converted to carbonate in the presence of oxygen. The presence of carbonite ions has been proposed to be relevant to the absorption of carbon monoxide on calcium oxide and magnesium oxide and on ceria. In the former, it has been suggested that the carbon atom attaches via a coordinate covalent bond to an oxygen atom from the substrate throu ...
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Carbonite (online Backup)
Carbonite may refer to: * Carbonite (explosive), one of the earliest and most successful coal-mining explosives * Carbonite (ion), the inorganic anion that form conjugate base of dihydroxymethylidene with the chemical formula O2sup>2− * Carbonite (online backup), an online backup service * Carbonite (Star Wars), a fictional substance, most notably used to imprison Han Solo in the film ''The Empire Strikes Back'' * Carbonite-2 The Defence Intelligence Fusion Centre (DIFC) is based at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire. Largely created from the staff of the National Imagery Exploitation Centre (formerly known as the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC)) and th ...

Carbonite (Star Wars)
The space-opera blockbuster, '' Star Wars'' franchise has borrowed many real-life scientific and technological concepts in its settings. In turn, ''Star Wars'' has depicted, inspired, and influenced several futuristic technologies, some of which are in existence and others under development. In the introduction of the ''Return of the Jedi'' novelization, George Lucas wrote: "''Star Wars'' is also very much concerned with the tension between humanity and technology, an issue which, for me, dates back even to my first films. In ''Jedi'', the theme remains the same, as the simplest of natural forces brought down the seemingly invincible weapons of the evil Empire." While many of these technologies are in existence and in use today, they are not nearly as complex as seen in ''Star Wars.'' Some of these technologies are not considered possible at present. Nevertheless, many of the technologies depicted by ''Star Wars'' parallel modern real-life technologies and concepts, though some h ...
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