carbonize

Example Sentences

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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

None of these substances were found outside the skull, in the volcanic ash in which the carbonized, skeletal remains were buried.

From Salon

"The peculiar preservation of Tridentinosaurus had puzzled experts for decades. Now, it all makes sense. What it was described as carbonized skin, is just paint."

From Science Daily

“When you see black, that means it is charred, burned; it’s carbonized, and we have a big problem,” he says.

From Scientific American

Edison’s first practical light bulb used a carbonized cotton thread for that purpose; modern bulbs use tungsten filaments in an inert gas.

From Seattle Times