Word Meanings - DECARBONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. -- Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.
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- BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - CARBONATATION
The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight. - DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation. - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - MALLEABLE
Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. -- - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - BLOODULF
The European bullfinch. - CARBONIDE
A carbide. - MALLEABLEIZE
To make malleable. - BLOODROOT
A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant - BESSEMER STEEL
Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - DECARBONIZER
He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance. - BLOODY-MINDED
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. - BLOODSHEDDING
Bloodshed. Shak. - DECARBONIZE
To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. -- Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron. - 'SBLOOD
An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak. - UNSTEEL
To disarm; to soften. Richardson. - MONOCARBONIC
Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid. - HYDROCARBON
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used. - LOW STEEL
See LOW - NICKEL STEEL
A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc. - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - HIGH-WROUGHT
1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.