Carburet
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A carbide. obsolete
- 1 To react with carbon. obsolete, transitive
- 2 combine with carbon wordnet
- 3 To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel. obsolete, transitive
"Where there may be objections to the use or application of the foregoing mode of using peat gas for illuminating purposes, I employ another method of obtaining that object, and which is to carburet the peat gas by means of charred peat, in the same way as I carburet the vapours of sulphur to educe a bisulphuret of carbon. William Benson Stones, an 1850 patent"
- 4 To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine. transitive
- 5 To equip with a carburetor. transitive
"Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted."
Example
More examples"Where there may be objections to the use or application of the foregoing mode of using peat gas for illuminating purposes, I employ another method of obtaining that object, and which is to carburet the peat gas by means of charred peat, in the same way as I carburet the vapours of sulphur to educe a bisulphuret of carbon. William Benson Stones, an 1850 patent"
Etymology
Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during the mid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.
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