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carbonize

[kahr-buh-nahyz] / ˈkɑr bəˌnaɪz /
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char
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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

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.

From The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

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

He began to carbonize everything in nature that he could lay hands on.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

The next step was to make the modern scrolls resemble the ancient carbonized ones.

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

It is then placed in a furnace and carbonized.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

This is horrible!" said Tom Hunter one evening, while rapidly carbonizing his wooden legs in the fireplace of the smoking-room; "nothing to do! nothing to look forward to! what a loathsome existence!

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne

Dodds process, the, for carbonizing the heads of iron rails, 186.

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke

This system shows a greater economy in the cost of carbonizing the coal, but the large outlay and the wear and tear of the mechanical appliances involved have so far prevented its very general adoption.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

However, Edison and also Swan turned their attention to forming them by carbonizing a fiber of organic matter.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

All Liberty camshafts were cooled slowly from carbonizing heat and hardened by a single reheating to a temperature of from 1,380 to 1,430°F. and quenching in water.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin




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