carbon

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Fósforo’s two offerings are the fruity and grassy Tobalá, and the ashy and vegetal Tobalá Penca, which is aged for one to three months in glass carboys with a cooked agave leaf.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2022

It is a bio lab, for sure, complete with pipettes, carboys, microscopes, and flasks.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2015

A carboy of pure acid, and carboys of 1.400 electrolyte ready for use should be on hand.

From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Witte, Otto A.

Also, there was carried a part of the leaden carboys which they had filled.

From The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone by Bonner, Richard

These people generally put a large quantity of sandal oil into the receiver, the oil is afterwards carefully removed and sold as sandal attar, and the water put into carboys and disposed of as rose-water.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.