carbonize

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

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

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

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

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

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

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

Here was a smell of burning rice, of Yoémon's dinner gradually carbonizing under the influence of an element other than the juices of his round stomach.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville

The pins are then allowed to cool slowly from the carbonizing heat, after which the hole is finish-machined and the pin cut to length.

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

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

For the complete removal of all foreign vegetable substances from wool the most effective process is carbonizing, in which the burs, etc., are burned out by means of acid and a high degree of heat.

From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley