Carburet

Quick meaning: Carburet is a noun meaning (chemistry, obsolete) A carbide.

Meaning

(chemistry, obsolete) A carbide.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, chemistry, obsolete) To react with carbon.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.
3. (transitive) To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
4. (transitive) To equip with a carburetor.

Example Sentences

Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.

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

Word Forms

• carburets
• carburate
• carbureting
• carburetting
• carbureted
• carburetted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include percarburet, carbureter, carby, carbide, carb, carbunkle.

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