Sekirov Dictionary

carburet

verb 4
noun 1
forms 5

verb4

To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
•
To equip with a carburetor.
- Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.
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(no longer used) To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.
- 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
(no longer used) To react with carbon.

noun1

(no longer used) A carbide.

forms

carbureted · carburetted · carbureting · carburetting · carburets

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