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carburet

 
Dictionary: car·bu·ret   (kär'bə-rāt', -rĕt', -byə-) pronunciation

tr.v., -ret·ed, or -ret·ted, -ret·ing, or -ret·ting, -rets, or -rets.
To combine or mix (a gas, for example) with volatile hydrocarbons, so as to increase available fuel energy.

[From carburet, carbide, from French carbure, from Latin carbō, carbon. See carbon.]

carburetion car·bu·re'tion n.

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Meaning #1: combine with carbon, in chemistry


 
 
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