Carbonize
[kɑ:bәnaiz]
Definition
(verb.) turn into carbon, as by burning; 'carbonize coal'.
(verb.) unite with carbon; 'carburize metal'.
Edited by Janet--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
(v. t.) To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
Typed by Adele
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Convert into carbon.
Typist: Wilhelmina
Examples
- He began to carbonize everything in nature that he could lay hands on. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He examined this, and then gave it to one of his assistants, telling him to cut it up and get out of it all the filaments he could, carbonize them, put them into lamps, and try them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then a battle began that lasted for two days and two nights, the object of which was to get a carbonized thread that would not break. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He next sent a boy to buy a reel of cotton, and told his assistants he was going to see what a carbonized thread would do. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The mould was opened and the carbonized thread removed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The distinctive features of this lamp consisted in a bowed filament of carbon of very thin, thread-like character, which was made of paper or carbonized cellulose. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Six thousand specimens of bamboo were carbonized, and he found three kinds of bamboo and one of cane that gave almost the result he wanted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Well, we sent out and bought some cotton thread, carbonized it, and made the first filament. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This horseshoe of carbonized paper seemed incapable to resist mechanical shocks and to maintain incandescence for any considerable length of time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He wanted a more homogeneous material than thread, and he began to try carbonizing everything he could lay his hands on, straw, paper, cardboard, splinters of wood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Randall