Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as carbonize.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To convert to carbon; to burn or caramelize.

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Examples

  • Then we could irrigate large spans of desert and grasslands into forests and crops, use them to reduce the heat directly while they sequester carbon, and then carbonify the plant waste to further enrich the soil and sequester more carbon.

    New Scientist - Earth 2009

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