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Definition of Decarbonize
1. Verb. Remove carbon from (an engine).
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Definition of Decarbonize
1. v. t. To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood.
Definition of Decarbonize
1. Verb. To remove carbon from something, especially from an engine; to decoke. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decarbonize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Medical Definition of Decarbonize
1. To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonised iron. See Malleable iron. Decarbonised steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron. Origin: Decarbonised; Decarbonizing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decarbonize
Literary usage of Decarbonize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wedding's Basic Bessemer Process by Hermann Wedding, Ernst Prochaska, William Battle Phillips (1891)
"... and decarbonize in an acid converter, and to deoxidize and recar- ... after the
Krupp process and to decarbonize in an acid converter, ..."
2. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"The pots were made of cast iron, and it required a boiling of about twenty hours'
duration to thoroughly decarbonize an article an inch in thickness. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... adopted aa a preliminary stage to puddling (§ 23) earned out a great deal
further (so as wholly to decarbonize the metal) at a much higher temperature, ..."
4. Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options by David G. Victor (2004)
"Third, the new Kyoto must recognize that the only viable way to decarbonize the
economy is to develop and install new technologies. ..."
5. Rapid Methods for the Chemical Analysis of Special Steels, Steel-making by Charles Morris Johnson (1909)
"If the steel be unannealed and of a carbon content ranging from about 0.35 per
cent carbon and higher, thin curly drillings are obtained which decarbonize ..."
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