Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove carbon from; decarburize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
decarburize .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of carbon
- transitive verb See
Malleable iron . - transitive verb homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove
carbon from something, especially from anengine ; todecoke .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove carbon from (an engine)
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Examples
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Another possibility for us would be to "decarbonize" our enconomy, as advocated by Bobby Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy recently wrote for Vanity Fair:
Re-Carbonize or De-Carbonize, That is the Question Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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We know that nations that "decarbonize" their economies reap immediate rewards.
Re-Carbonize or De-Carbonize, That is the Question Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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A rising carbon price is essential to "decarbonize" the economy, i.e., to move the nation toward the era beyond fossil fuels.
Oekologismus.de 2010
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Mayor Harvey Hall can get very excited about efforts to "decarbonize" California's energy system.
Offshore Drilling and Gulf Oil Spill info@ecologicalinternet.org (ClimateWire: John J. 2010
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Every credible analysis finds that renewables and energy efficiency will provide only a portion of the emissions reductions needed if we are to "decarbonize" our economy.
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A rising carbon price is essential to "decarbonize" the economy, i.e., to move the nation toward the era beyond fossil fuels.
Oekologismus.de 2010
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The political activist / scientist, global-warming guru, and boon companion to Al Gore has written a letter to Barack and Michelle Obama, imploring the president-elect and his wife to "decarbonize" the economy by imposing a steadily increasing "carbon tax" on coal, oil, and gas.
The New American 2009
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A rising carbon price is essential to "decarbonize" the economy, i.e., to move the nation toward the era beyond fossil fuels.
Darwiniana 2009
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A rising carbon price is essential to "decarbonize" the economy, i.e., to move the nation toward the era beyond fossil fuels.
Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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The political activist / scientist, global-warming guru, and boon companion to Al Gore has written a letter to Barack and Michelle Obama, imploring the president-elect and his wife to "decarbonize" the economy by imposing a steadily increasing "carbon tax" on coal, oil, and gas.
Planet Gore 2009
qroqqa commented on the word decarbonize
We now urgently need to . . . introduce a Green New Deal – which would . . . generate a transformational economic programme to substantially decarbonise our economy.
—from a letter from a Green Party spokesperson, New Scientist, 15/11/2008
November 21, 2008