Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To treat, combine, or impregnate with carbon, as when casehardening steel.
- transitive verb To carburet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to unite with carbon or a hydrocarbon, as when the illuminating power of a gas is increased by mingling with it the vapor of volatile hydrocarbons. Also carburise, carburet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Chem.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To treat or react with
carbon - verb To
carbonize
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb unite with carbon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This process unfortunately requires for its prompt success the use of a very large quantity of spiegel or of ferro-manganese, in order to sufficiently carburize and deoxidize the burnt iron, which is the final product of the blowing.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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The most satisfactory steel to carburize contains between 0.10 and 0.20 per cent carbon, less than 0.35 per cent manganese, less than 0.04 per cent phosphorus and sulphur, and low silicon.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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Mixed with raw bone it will carburize more rapidly, and still more so if mixed with burnt bone.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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Practically all printed information on the subject is to the effect that nickel steel takes longer to carburize than plain carbon steel.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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The advantages in the hardening start with the carburizing operation, as a steel of uniform and fine grain size will carburize more uniformly, producing
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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