C8 Explained

C8, C08, C.VIII or C-8 may refer to:

Transportation

Aviation

• AEG C.VIII, a World War I German armed reconnaissance aircraft
• AGO C.VIII, a World War I German reconnaissance aircraft
• Cierva C.8, a 1926 Spanish experimental autogyro
• De Havilland Canada C-8 Buffalo, a military transport aircraft of the 1960s
• Fairchild C-8, a military transport aircraft of the 1930s
• Fokker C.VIII, a 1928 Dutch reconnaissance aircraft
• Chicago Express Airlines (defunct) IATA code

Automotive

• Citroën C8, a brand of minivan
• Sauber C8, a 1985 racing car
• Spyker C8, a sportscar produced by car manufacturer Spyker Cars
• Eighth generation Chevrolet Corvette (C8)

Nautical

• HMS C8, a 1907 C-class submarine of the Royal Navy
• USS Raleigh (C-8), an 1892 protected cruiser of the United States Navy

Rail

• LSWR C8 class, a London and South Western Railway locomotive class
• C-8 (Cercanías Madrid)
• LNER Class C8, a class of 2 4-cylinder compound locomotives

Spaceflight

• Saturn C-8, the largest Saturn rocket to be designed

Biology, medicine and chemistry

• Code C08 Calcium channel blockers, in ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System)
• C08, Malignant neoplasm of other and unspecified major salivary glands ICD-10 code
• C8 complex, three proteins involved in the complement system (part of the immune system)
• Cervical spinal nerve 8 in human anatomy
• Carbon-8 (C-8 or ⁸C), an isotope of carbon
• An octyl-type hydrocarbon with eight carbon atoms like in a C8 bonded silica stationary phase column, a type of column used in reversed-phase chromatography
• Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA, known colloquially as C8), a ubiquitous chemical used in the production of PTFE

Arts and entertainment

• Eighth octave C, a musical note, the highest on a piano
• Castle Infinity, the first graphical massively multiplayer online game
• C8 (French TV channel), a French TV channel
• C8 (Eastern Europe), TV channel

Other uses

• Caldwell 8 (NGC 559), an open cluster in Cassiopeia
• Celestron, 8inches a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
• C8 carbine, an assault rifle used by Canada and other NATO forces made by Diemaco/Colt Canada
• C8 Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920
• Elbrus-8C, a Russian 28 Nanometre 8 core microprocessor
• An international standard paper size (57×81 mm), defined in ISO 216

See also

• 8C (disambiguation)