Sentence examples for carbonize from inspiring English sources

Plus, he already brings the moisture content of his logs down to eight per cent, drying them in a giant kiln that's long enough for their ends to carbonize.

To carbonize the coffee grounds, she and her colleagues mixed the grounds with water and zinc, and then dried the mixture in an oven.

Its technicians are analyzing the film, which probably includes tarlike derivatives, carbonized wood fibers and high-carbon soot from plastics, said Claudia Kavenagh, director of the company's New York office.

Is it making urgent and determined efforts to de-carbonize its economy and life-style?

Kevin McKnight, Alcoa's chief sustainability officer and vice-president of environment, health and safety, said: "To 'de-carbonize the world' is one of our core business objectives".

According to the historian Norman Davies, "the spectators, including kings and queens, shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized".

Fusain is composed mainly of fusinite (carbonized woody plant tissue) and semifusinite from the maceral group inertinite, which is rich in carbon and highly reflective.

It was, nevertheless, not until the summer of 1880 that Edison determined that carbonized bamboo fibre made a satisfactory material for the filament, although the world's first operative lighting system had been installed on the steamship Columbia in April.

All plant and animal life had been destroyed, and the trees on the mountainsides had been completely carbonized by scorching winds.

For every ton of coal carbonized only about two to three pounds (0.9 to 1.35 kilograms) of benzene are obtained.

Some years earlier, in 1860, Swan developed a primitive electric light, one that utilized a filament of carbonized paper in an evacuated glass bulb.