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Definition of Carbonisation
1. Noun. The destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens).
Generic synonyms: Destructive Distillation
Derivative terms: Carbonise, Carbonize
Definition of Carbonisation
1. Noun. (chiefly British) (alternative spelling of carbonization) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbonisation
Literary usage of Carbonisation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1872)
"In order to insure the complete carbonisation of the outer portions of the heap,
the combustion ... The carbonisation-bed is a rectangular wooden box, Figs. ..."
2. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1900)
"At the commencement of the carbonisation of a charge of coal, ... As the
carbonisation progresses, however, the exterior portion of the mass becomes ..."
3. Timber: A Comprehensive Study of Wood in All Its Aspects, Commercial and by Paul Charpentier, Joseph Kennell, tr (1902)
"It is not the same with carbonisation, which will now be dealt with, ...
carbonisation. Since the earliest times it has been known that carbonisation is one ..."
4. General Notions of Chemistry by Théophile Jules Pelouze, Edmond Fremy (1854)
"carbonisation in mounds.—Charcoal is ordinarily made in the forests, by a process
which is called carbonisation in mounds, or carbonisation of the forests. ..."
5. A Manual of Forestry by Sir William Schlich (1896)
"This decomposition of an organic body is termed dry distillation, and in the case
of wood, carbonisation. Charcoal consists of carbon and the incombustible ..."
6. Coal and Its Scientific Uses by William Arthur Bone (1918)
"CHAPTER XV THE carbonisation INDUSTRIES INTRODUCTORY : THE GAS INDUSTRY THE coal
carbonised in the United Kingdom in the year 1916 amounted to 37-62 million ..."
7. The Chemistry of Gas Manufacture: A Practical Manual for the Use of Gas by Harold M. Royle (1907)
"OF the products of carbonisation or " destructive distillation " the chief one
... As the temperature of carbonisation increases, the yield of gas increases ..."
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