carburet
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during amid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.
Noun
[edit]carburet (plural carburets)
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[edit]carburet (third-person singular simple present carburets, present participle carbureting or carburetting, simple past and past participle carbureted or carburetted)
- (transitive, chemical, obsolete) To react with carbon.
- (transitive, obsolete) 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
- 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.
- (transitive) To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.
- (transitive) To equip with a carburetor.
- Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.