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

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

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

A partially carbonized plug of matted coarse fibers also fills the mouth end of the smaller pipe.

From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by William C. Massey

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

It went into the floor, vaporizing the surface and carbonizing the multi-ply wood layer beneath it.

From The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster

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

Twenty point carbon, such as is used for carbonizing purposes is 0.20 per cent.

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

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

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke