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Definition of Carbonize

1. Verb. Unite with carbon. "Carburize metal"

2. Verb. Turn into carbon, as by burning. "Carbonize coal"

Definition of Carbonize

1. v. t. To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Definition of Carbonize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbonize

carbonic acid gas carbonic acid inhibitor carbonic anhydrase II deficiency syndrome carbonic anhydrase inhibitor carbonic anhydrase inhibitors carbonic anhydride Carboniferous Carboniferous period carbonisation carbonise

carbonium carbonium carboniums carbonization carbonizations carbonize (current term) carbonized carbonizes carbonizing carbonless

carbonnade carbonnades carbonnade flamande carbonometer carbonometry carbonous carbons carbonuria carbonyl carbonyl

Literary usage of Carbonize

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1. Qualitative Chemical Analysis: A Guide in Qualitative Work, with Data for by Albert Benjamin Prescott, Otis Coe Johnson (1901)
"Citrates carbonize on ignition, with various empyreumatic products, and with final formation of carbonates. By fused potassium hydroxide, short of ignition, ..."

2. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"A—After forging or machining carbonize at between 1600* and 1750° F. (1650-1700° F. desired), cool slowly or quench, reheat to I450°-1500° F. and quench. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Certain hydrocarbons, eg, paraffin vapour and coal gas, will carbonize iron heated therein, and the manufacture of steel by cementation in the latter has ..."

4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1846)
"That cold sulphuric acid does not readily carbonize it. 4. That cold concentrated sulphuric acid exposed in an open vessel, will not detect the presence of ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1886)
"So, to carbonize iron-ore, we must first melt it by blast-furnace practice, take the oxygen out and put carbon in. Now we may run this pig- iron, ..."

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