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🔥 To burn to charcoal ⚙️ To add carbon
to carbonize

to carbonize

1 8.4
To add carbon to a metal's surface to make it harder
  • verb
  • /ˈkɑrbəˌnaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : carbonizar
  • The process will carbonize the metal, making it stronger and more durable.

Examples

  • But... ...apply it to anything metallic and... ...it will work its way through up to six inches of carbonized steel.

    Stormbreaker (2006)

  • "Are they producing carbonized iron?"

    Academic text (2007)

  • The filament of the first Prestel incandescent lamp which I invented was a carbonized cotton thread.

  • During the experiment, researchers found that they could carbonize the wood by heating it in a low-oxygen environment.

  • To improve the conductivity of the material, engineers decided to carbonize some of its components.

Synonyms

to carburize
vsto carbonize
  • Specialized
9.9

To add carbon to metal by heating to make the surface hard

unites materials with carbon in any chemical or metallurgical process

How Carbon-Enriched

to carburize
  • Specialized
9.9
to carbonize
  • Specialized
1 8.4
to add
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

carbonize infinitive
carbonized past
carbonized past participle
carbonizing present participle
carbonizes third person singular

Morphology

carbonize = carbon (transparent) = carbon + ize

Standard derivation from the noun 'carbon' with the verb-forming suffix '-ize', conveying 'to combine with or add carbon'.

Etymology

Carbonize comes from carbon, which first meant 'charcoal', and a helpful way to remember the technical sense is to think of 'adding carbon'. So, to carbonize metal or materials is to 'join them with carbon', for example to make steel harder.