carburet
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But isooctane alone makes a poor fuel because it is not volatile enough, does not readily carburet into explodible vapor.
From Time Magazine Archive
I used to think he was a carburetor,— and then I read a few pages of him—no, he just didn't carburet.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are no doubt coloured by a carburet of hydrogen.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
Heath's secret was the addition to the charge of from 1 to 3 percent of carburet of manganese5 as a deoxidizer.
From The Beginnings of Cheap Steel by Philip W. Bishop
The stuckoffen were therefore converted into flossoffen, or melting furnaces, whence the liquid carburet was withdrawn, and afterwards converted into bar iron.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
Dartmouth's team, for example, could have based their car on "a perfectly good carbureted Honda engine," Collier says.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2011
To bring that view to hand, the fabulous machine, long carbureted for an economy of scarcity and now supercharged by war, demanded a complete readjustment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Petroleum is scarcely less constant in its connection with these carbonaceous rocks than carbureted hydrogen, and it only escapes notice from the little space it occupies.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
The heat of the steam is taken up by the refrigeration caused by the evaporation of the gasoline, so that at E the compound is carbureted air and cold water.
Here it is evident that the coal has undergone a long-continued distillation, which must have resulted in the constant production of carbonic acid and carbureted hydrogen.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
As the character of the gas as an illuminator depends on the quantity of hydro-carbon, or olefiant elements it contains, great efforts were made to invent processes and means of carbureting it.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
The early types of carbureting devices were very crude and cumbersome, and the mixture of gasoline vapor and air was accomplished in three ways.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
If the ignition system is functioning properly one should determine the amount of compression in all cylinders and if this is satisfactory the carbureting group should be tested.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
We find, according to Professor Graham, the vitiated air to be composed somewhat as follows: Phosphoretted hydrogen, sulphuretted hydrogen, carbonic acid, carburetted hydrogen, cyanogen with its compounds.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
To Priestly we owe our knowledge of oxygen, binoxide of nitrogen, sulphurous acid, fluosilicic acid, muriatic acid, ammonia, carburetted hydrogen, and carbonic oxide.
From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Frederic Rowland Marvin
The illuminating power of acetylene carburetted with petroleum spirit has been examined by Caro, whose average figures, worked out in British units, are:
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
The spouting wells deliver, therefore, enormous volumes of gas with the water, a perfect suds of water, carbonic acid and carburetted hydrogen.
From Saratoga and How to See It by R. F. Dearborn
Nor had the use of carburetted water gas, as introduced by Donovan in 1830 for illuminating purposes, more than a very short life.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The carburetting of low-power gas by impregnating it with the vapours of volatile hydrocarbons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
The practical effect of carburetting acetylene with hydrocarbon vapours will be shown in Chapter X. to be disastrous so far as the illuminating efficiency of the gas is concerned.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
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