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
The stuckoffen were therefore converted into flossoffen, or melting furnaces, whence the liquid carburet was withdrawn, and afterwards converted into bar iron.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
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
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
If it were true that carbureted hydrogen and petroleum are produced only from the primary decomposition of organic tissue, it would be inevitable that at least the elastic gases would have escaped long since.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
Experiments with carbureted water gas gave the following results, with a consumption of 5 cubic feet per hour: Size of Chimney.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various
Coal-gas usually is of lower illuminating value than carbureted water-gas.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew
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 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
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 charge of carburetted air is drawn through a non-return valve into the crank chamber during the upstroke of the piston, and compressed to about 4 lbs. pressure per square inch on the down stroke.
From A History of Aeronautics by Vivian, Evelyn Charles
Moreover, the odour of the acetylene itself would render the detection of a leak far easier with carburetted acetylene than with air-gas.
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)
When a much weaker solution was used, less gas was evolved at the anode than at the cathode; and it now contained carburetted hydrogen, as well as carbonic oxide and carbonic acid.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael
During the progress of the boring there is more or less carburetted hydrogen gas set free.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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 Leeds, F. H. (Frank Henley)
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