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carbonize

[kahr-buh-nahyz] / ˈkɑr bəˌnaɪz /
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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

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

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

The signal can be exceptionally faint because conventional carbon ink and carbonized papyrus can look very similar to X rays.

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

In the former the threads are more or less carbonized, in the latter nearly colourless.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

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

No investigation has ever been made of possible methods for preventing the oils from carbonizing at the higher temperatures, and the properties of explosive mixtures of oil vapors and air have not been studied.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. Wilson

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

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

The Harvey process of making armor consists in taking an all-steel plate and carbonizing the face.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various


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