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- verb Present participle of
decarbonate .
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Examples
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This decarbonating function requires the agency of the maternal lungs, for the purpose of oxygenating the mother's blood.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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This additional experience proved of great benefit to him; and he continued to prosecute his inquiries with much zeal, sometimes devoting entire nights to experiments in assaying, roasting and cementing iron-ores and ironstone, decarbonating cast-iron for steel and bar-iron, and various like operations.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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This additional experience proved of great benefit to him; and he continued to prosecute his inquiries with much zeal, sometimes devoting entire nights to experiments in assaying, roasting and cementing iron-ores and ironstone, decarbonating cast-iron for steel and bar-iron, and various like operations.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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The operation of this gas is to prevent the decarbonating of the blood; and, consequently, if taken excessively, it would produce apoplexy.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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