Bethelln.

/ˈbɛθəl/

Etymology: < the name of John Bethell, a nineteenth-century U.S. inventor.

Used attributively or in the possessive to designate a process of wood preservation (see quot. 1940).

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1838 Brit. Pat. 7731 (title) Rendering wood, cork, and other articles more durable, &c. Bethell's specification.

1901 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engin. 45 503 All the French roads [i.e. railways] but one have creosoting by the ‘Bethell’ process.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 88/2 Bethell's process, a process for preserving timber, which is first dried, then subjected to a partial vacuum within a special cylinder, and finally impregnated with creosote under pressure.

1962 W. P. K. Findlay Preservation of Timber iii. 38 Bethell's process is often called the Full Cell Process because it results in filling the cells of the treated zone with a liquid.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	bethell
释义	Bethelln. /ˈbɛθəl/ Etymology: < the name of John Bethell, a nineteenth-century U.S. inventor. Used attributively or in the possessive to designate a process of wood preservation (see quot. 1940). ΚΠ 1838 Brit. Pat. 7731 (title) Rendering wood, cork, and other articles more durable, &c. Bethell's specification. 1901 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engin. 45 503 All the French roads [i.e. railways] but one have creosoting by the ‘Bethell’ process. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 88/2 Bethell's process, a process for preserving timber, which is first dried, then subjected to a partial vacuum within a special cylinder, and finally impregnated with creosote under pressure. 1962 W. P. K. Findlay Preservation of Timber iii. 38 Bethell's process is often called the Full Cell Process because it results in filling the cells of the treated zone with a liquid. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1838
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