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Definition of Carbonizing
1. carbonize [v] - See also: carbonize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbonizing
Literary usage of Carbonizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"The carbonizing Materials The nature of the carbonizing materials has an ...
Wood charcoal is very largely used in carbonizing steels, but the value of this ..."
2. Composition and Heat Treatment of Steel by Edmund Francis Lake (1910)
"This also is foreign to the subject, but the gas it uses is practically the same
as that used in the furnace for carbonizing with gas, which will be ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"It is evident that alkaline chemicals are not suitable for carbonizing purposes,
since they readily destroy the wool fiber without injuring the vegetable ..."
4. Textiles for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools: Also Adapted by William Henry Dooley (1914)
"Process of carbonizing. For the complete removal of all foreign vegetable substances
from wool the most effective process is carbonizing, in which the burs, ..."
5. Textiles by Paul Henry Nystrom (1916)
"carbonizing,.—The vegetable matter is removed by chemical means, ... The chemical
carbonizing process came into use in the wool-manufacturing industry about ..."
6. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp (1916)
"Wool containing much straw, burrs, or other vegetable matter is often cleaned by
carbonizing. The raw wool is submerged in a solution of aluminum ..."
7. Hand Book of Natural Gas by Henry Palmer Westcott (1920)
"The proportion of the gases may produce three divisions in the character of the
flame—called reducing or carbonizing, neutral and oxidizing. ..."
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