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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.
  • BLOODSHEDDER
    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
  • CARBONATATION
    The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • 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.
  • CARBONIDE
    A carbide.
  • BLOODULF
    The European bullfinch.
  • 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.

 

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