carburet
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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
But isooctane alone makes a poor fuel because it is not volatile enough, does not readily carburet into explodible vapor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sea, with its various colors, appeared strangely transparent, and endowed with a wonderful dispersive quality, as if it had been made with carburet of sulphur.
From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard
In 1839, Josiah Marshall Heath patented the important application of carburet of manganese to steel in the crucible, which application imparted to the resulting product the properties of varying temper and increased forgeability.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert
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 Humboldt, Alexander von
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
In carbureted water gas this gas is only used as the carrier of illuminating hydrocarbon gases, made by decomposing various grades of hydrocarbon oils into permanent gases by heat.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 by Various
When a current of air is passed over the surface of gasoline it becomes carbureted or charged with its vapors to saturation.
The ore must be added in smaller proportions, and, being longer in contact with the heated charcoal, would become carbureted; the carbon must therefore be finally burned away, before malleable iron could be attained.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
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 Pag?, Victor Wilfred
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 Pag?, Victor Wilfred
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 Doolittle, William Henry
The American process for making carburetted water gas, as an auxiliary to ordinary coal gas, was first introduced by the London Gas Light and Coke Company on a large scale in 1890.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Bubbles of carbonic acid and carburetted hydrogen gas are also disengaged from these springs, and at certain periods with such violence, as to throw the mud to the height of 200 feet.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The spirit of inquiry not being to be repressed by these trifling inconveniences, Mr. Davy was now emboldened to introduce into his green bag, four quarts of carburetted hydrogen gas, nearly pure.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
It is manifest that, like air-gas, carburetted acetylene is of somewhat indefinite composition, for the proportion of vapour, and the chemical nature of that vapour, may vary.
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 Leeds, F. H. (Frank Henley)
He spent ten months of incessant labor in them, often endangering and once nearly losing his life from breathing carburetted hydrogen.
From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.
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 Leeds, F. H. (Frank Henley)
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
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