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carburet
verb 4noun 1
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1CARBURET + NOUN
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noun
1
A carbide.
verb
1
To react with carbon.
2
To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.
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
3
To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
4
To equip with a carburetor.
Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.
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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 th
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Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.
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