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Carbonize   Listen
verb
Carbonize  v. t.  (past & past part. carbonized; pres. part. carbonizing)  
1.
To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
2.
To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.





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"Carbonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... fibers, cotton and linen, are distinguished from those of animal origin by their behavior in the presence of acids and alkalies. The vegetable are insoluble when boiled with a 4 per cent sodium hydrate solution, but readily clear or carbonize when saturated with a 3 per cent sulphuric acid solution and allowed to dry at a high temperature in a hot closet. Wool on the other hand is not affected by the action ...
— Textiles • William H. Dooley
... ground. They first broke the ore into little pieces, and cleansed them with the hand from the impurities which soiled their surface. Then coal and ore were arranged in heaps and in successive layers, as the charcoal-burner does with the wood which he wishes to carbonize. In this way, under the influence of the air projected by the blowing-machine, the coal would be transformed into carbonic acid, then into oxide of carbon, its use being to reduce the oxide of iron, that is to say, to rid it ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne
... as a commercial illuminant in England, very small union jet nipples were utilized for its consumption, but after burning for a short time these nipples began to carbonize, the flame being distorted, and then smoking occurred with the formation of a heavy deposit of soot. While these troubles were being experienced in England, attempts had been made in America to use acetylene diluted with a certain proportion of ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Carbonize" :   carbon, hot up, chemical science, change state, carbonization, chemistry, heat up, carburise, carbonic, carburize


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