Word Meanings - DECARBURIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

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• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• CARBONATATION
  The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
• CARBONIDE
  A carbide.
• CARBONARISM
  The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
• CARBONIZATION
  The act or process of carbonizing.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• CARBONATED
  Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
• CARBONITE
  An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium. 2. An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpeter, sulphur, and kieselguhr.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• CARBON TRANSMITTER
  A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.
• CARBON PROCESS
  A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• CARBONE
  To broil. "We had a calf's head carboned". Pepys.
• CARBONATE
  A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
• CARBONADE; CARBONADO
  Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop.
• CARBONACEOUS
  Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.
• CARBONIZE
  1. To cover into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char. 2. To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
• CARBONARO
  A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic. Note: The origin of the Carbonari is uncertain, but the society is said to have
• MONOCARBONIC
  Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
• HYDROCARBON
  A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
• SUBCARBONIFEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.
• DECARBONIZER
  He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
• SULPHOCARBONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.
• DECARBONIZE
  To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. -- Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.
• DECARBONATE
  To deprive of carbonic acid.
• DECARBONIZATION
  The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.
• ORTHOCARBONIC
  Designating a complex ether, C. 4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid,
• SULPHOCARBONATE
  A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.