carbonize
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With the right equipment, we all have the ability to sous vide, slap chop, air fry, spiralize, carbonize and even slice our own bananas.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2014
Of course, the method employed to carbonize the materials is suspectible of variation, but the scientific principles involved are unchangeable, viz.:
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various
When the dust thus produced begins to carbonize, the pressure and velocity are increased.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various
Just the right mixture will neither burn nor carbonize and is said to be a "neutral" flame.
From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Harold P. (Harold Phillips) Manly
He began to carbonize everything in nature that he could lay hands on.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
If some ancient inks contained lead, he reasoned, that metal might absorb X rays far more strongly than the surrounding carbonized papyrus.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
His winning edge was the carbonized bamboo filament he pioneered shortly after his initial 1879 breakthrough, providing the longevity needed to turn a novelty into a utility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Later, she drives through a part of the forest that burned the year before to see “mile upon mile of carbonized trees and denuded earth, a now-familiar scene of extinguished life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
“When you see black, that means it is charred, burned; it’s carbonized, and we have a big problem,” he says.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023
As much as one-third on each ton of coal carbonized is saved by the use of machinery in the retort-house.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Dodds process, the, for carbonizing the heads of iron rails, 186.
From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke
It went into the floor, vaporizing the surface and carbonizing the multi-ply wood layer beneath it.
From The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster
They need the weight of carbonizing years; Yet, how they glitter after these have past!
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
Carbon with its extremely high melting-point had long attracted attention and in 1879 Edison produced a carbon filament by carbonizing a strip of paper.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
This carbonizing process is very similar to the cementation process of producing steel, and by it the face of the plate is made high in carbon and very hard.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various
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