carburet

plural carburets · alternative carburate

1. obsoletechemistryA carbide.

present singular third person carburets · US participle present carbureting · UK participle present carburetting · US participle past carbureted · US past carbureted · UK participle past carburetted · UK past carburetted · alternative carburate

1. obsoletetransitivechemistryTo react with carbon.
2. obsoletetransitiveTo enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.

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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 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. transitiveTo mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
4. transitiveTo equip with a carburetor.

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