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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
carburet .
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Examples
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The former is produced chiefly by one or more carburets of hydrogen, and their oxidation derivatives.
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The former is produced chiefly by one or more carburets of hydrogen, and their oxidation derivatives.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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Infiltration of water, reaching a certain depth, come into contact with incandescent masses of carburets of metals, chiefly of iron, and are at once decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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If the center of the earth contains great masses of metallic carburets, we may, in case this theory is verified, count upon an almost inexhaustible source of fuel for the day when our coal deposits shall fail us.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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The carburets of hydrogen which separate in a liquid state through the effect of the compression of the gas are retained in a cylindrical receptacle, V, which is located between the pump and the accumulators,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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Rio Negro, when subjected to ebullition, do not become brown like other fluids charged with carburets of hydrogen.
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With sulphur and carbon, forming sulphurets and carburets.
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The colouring principle seems to be in little abundance; for I observed that the waters of the Guainia or Rio Negro, when subjected to ebullition, do not become brown like other fluids charged with carburets of hydrogen.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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If I recollect right, steel and plumbago, which you mentioned in the last lesson, are both carburets of iron?
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Yes; and they are the only carburets of much consequence.
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