recarbonizev.
/rᵻˈkɑːbənʌɪz/, /rᵻˈkɑːbn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /riˈkɑrbəˌnaɪz/ transitive. To recombine (a substance) with carbon; to reintroduce carbon into or increase the carbon content of (a metal, alloy, etc.); (also) to convert to carbon again (rare).
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1821 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 111 111 I..re-carbonized the needles, by surrounding them with shreds of leather, and exposing them for several hours in a close vessel to a considerable heat.
1862 J. C. Stock & J. E. Emerson U.S. Patent 34095 1/1 Our invention consists in..converting the cast-iron into..‘malleable iron’..and afterward recarbonizing it to a suitable degree by heating in an air-tight pot.
1880 R. V. Tuson Cooley's Cycl. Pract. Receipts (ed. 6) II. 1481/2 After the seaweed charcoal has become thoroughly impregnated with fæces and urine, the mixture is recarbonised in a retort, and the carbon can be again be used.
1909 Times 21 Jan. 3/1 Heating the bath of metal..until the carbon is reduced to the desired percentage, and finally tapping the metal without ‘necessarily’ recarbonizing it.
1972 Carbon 10 189/1 A comparison of the physical properties of syntactic carbon foam carbonized at 900°C and recarbonized at 2150°C in argon is shown.
2003 Composites Sci. & Technol. 63 654/2 For further densification the porous composite is reimpregnated and recarbonised three times.
Derivatives
reˌcarboniˈzation n. the action or process of recarbonizing a substance; an instance of this; cf. recarburization n.
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1839 Proc. Bot. Soc. 1 43 In the process of putrefaction, there is always a recarbonization of part of the ingredients, and a consequent evolution of hydrogen.
1866 S. H. Daddow Coal, Iron, & Oil vi. xxix. 648 The great difficulty..has been in the application of mechanical means to effect the decarbonization of cast metal to form wrought iron, and the recarbonization to form steel.
1925 P. B. Ballard Changing School xv. 224 The Bessemer process of making steel, therefore, consists of two essential parts—complete decarbonisation and partial recarbonisation.
2001 Materials Sci. & Engin. A. 316 127/1 Densification either by chemical vapor infiltration or by liquid phase impregnation followed by recarbonization is required to obtain a densified composite.
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