The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carbureted \Car"bu*ret`ed\, a.
(Chem.) Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide.
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Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power. [Written also carburetted.]
Carbureted hydrogen gas, any one of several gaseous compounds of carbon and hydrogen, some of with make up illuminating gas.
Light carbureted hydrogen, methane ( CH4), also called marsh gas, and fire damp.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: carburet)
WordNet
See carburet
v. combine with carbon
[also: carburetting, carburetted]
Usage examples of "carburetted".
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.