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Decarbonize definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEC'ARBONIZE, v.t. To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: remove carbon from (an engine) [syn: decarbonize, decarbonise, decarburize, decarburise, decoke]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1825 to remove carbon from • decarbonizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) remove carbon or carbonaceous deposits from (an internal-combustion engine etc.). Derivatives: decarbonization n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Decarbonize De*car"bon*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decarbonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Decarbonizing.] To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Deprive of carbon, free from carbon.