Definition of Carburetting

1. Verb. (present participle of carburet) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Carburetting

1. carburet [v] - See also: carburet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carburetting

carburations
carburet
carburetant
carburetants
carbureted
carbureting
carburetion
carburetions
carburetor
carburetors
carburets
carburetted
carburetted hydrogen
carburetter
carburetters
carburetting (current term)
carburettor
carburettors
carburise
carburised
carburises
carburising
carburizable
carburization
carburizations
carburize
carburized
carburizes
carburizing
carbutamide

Literary usage of Carburetting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1887)
"That poor gas can be very muc improved by carburetting is beyond any doubt ; but it is anothe question whether it is not more economical to make ..."

2. Gas Manufacture: The Chemistry of : a Practical Handbook on the Production by William John Atkinson Butterfield (1896)
"carburetting Gas and Air.—The method of enriching, or raising the illuminating power of gas of which this chapter treats is commonly known as ..."

3. Self-propelled Vehicles: A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction by James Edward Homans (1908)
"Classified according to structure and operation, there are three varieties of carburetting apparatus: 1. The surface carburetter, operating to produce a ..."

4. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"carburetting Tanks to Increase Candle-Power. ... In London, between 1850 and 1860, numbers of street lamps were equipped with carburetting tanks containing ..."

5. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Sir Boverton Redwood (1896)
"... ordinary mineral-oil lamps, and even mineral spirit of low boiling point, capable of being employed for the carburetting of coal gas, may be produced. ..."

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