The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carbide \Car"bide\, n. [Carbon + -ide.] (Chem.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) to react with carbon 2 (context transitive English) to mix (air) with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine. n. (context chemistry dated English) A carbide. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to react with carbon 2 (context transitive English) to mix (air) with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
WordNet
v. combine with carbon
[also: carburetting, carburetted]
Usage examples of "carburet".
In the Heath process, carburet of manganese is employed to aid the conversion of iron into steel, while it also confers on the metal the property of welding and working more soundly under the hammer— a fact discovered by Mr.
In the mine, now empty of coal, escapes of light carburetted hydrogen could not occur.
He agreed with him in thinking that the continued emission of carburetted hydrogen certainly showed the existence of a new coal-seam.
In fact, carburetted hydrogen is not completely scentless, and the engineer, whose sense of smell was very keen, was astonished that it had not revealed the presence of the explosive gas.
The flame of the lamp, burning straight and clear, revealed no trace of the carburetted hydrogen.
The popular idea of Venus as the twin sister of the earth is over and done with, even though the carburetted hydrogen present could be a culture-medium for all kinds of bacteria.
His theory can be proved if Venus has a high surface temperature, clouds containing carburetted hydrogen and an anomalous rotation.
But it has the advantage of being easy to produce—and safely—from the carburetted calcium that is cheap and can be procured in any fair-sized city.
It appears that in the course of the preceding year his attention had been called to the subject by an iron-maker, who asked him if he thought it possible to purify the air blown into the blast furnaces, in like manner as carburetted hydrogen gas was purified.
But there is another great curiosity in this valley: these beds of coal have produced springs, as they are termed, of carburetted hydrogen gas, which run along the banks of the river close to the water's-edge.