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Definition of Carburetting
1. carburet [v] - See also: carburet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carburetting
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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