Definition of "carburize" [car•bu•rize]

• To treat, combine, or impregnate with carbon, as when casehardening steel. (verb-transitive)
• To carburet. (verb-transitive)

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• "This process unfortunately requires for its prompt success the use of a very large quantity of spiegel or of ferro-manganese, in order to sufficiently carburize and deoxidize the burnt iron, which is the final product of the blowing."
• "The most satisfactory steel to carburize contains between 0.10 and 0.20 per cent carbon, less than 0.35 per cent manganese, less than 0.04 per cent phosphorus and sulphur, and low silicon."
• "Mixed with raw bone it will carburize more rapidly, and still more so if mixed with burnt bone."