carboniten.

1810 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 3) I. App. ii. iv. 398 The truth is, that the coal which is often found thus free, or nearly so from bitumen, is the natural carbonite, or carbonic substance, which occurs elsewhere, as well as in basaltic countries.

1874 Harper's Mag. May 902/2 A new fuel, termed ‘carbonite’, is at present much spoken of. it is a natural product, found in the bituminous coal-fields of Central Virginia.

1889 Times 26 June 7/4 Carbonite value £1,124.

1938 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) II. 357/1 Carbonite, or natural coke. A coke-like material formed by the baking action of intrusive igneous rock-masses on seams of bituminous coal.

2004 Fuel Processing Technol. 85 1664 Three kinds of Chinese coals were used in this study. These include one natural coke or carbonite from Huaibei coal mine.

1830 G. Crabb Dict. Gen. Knowl. 49/1 Barolite, a stone of the ponderous order, called also the carbonite of barytes.

1892 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 186 76 (table) Bromal or carbonite of bromoforme.

1906 Amer. Anthropologist 8 101 The colors are for the greater part red and white, the former being hematite and the latter carbonite of lead.

1920 Jrnl. Physical Chem. 24 82 The familiar action of carbon monoxide on potassium hydroxide, which might be expected to form potassium carbonite, gives instead potassium formate.

1937 Chem. Rev. 20 459 Wood..records the failure to prepare potassium ethyl carbonite, C(OC₂H₅)OK, by treating ethyl formate with potassium amide in liquid ammonia.

1996 Catalysis Today 27 379/1 CO can also interact with basic O²⁻ sites to lead..to the formation of surface ‘carbonite’ CO₂²⁻ ions.

2007 Times (Nexis) 17 Nov. (Mag.) 59 Green eye paint was derived from malachite, a carbonite of copper.

1890 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Weekly Tribune 28 Nov. 10/5 The high explosive carbonite has recently given very satisfactory results.

1891 T. E. Thorpe Dict. Appl. Chem. II. 83/2 Carbonite is an explosive introduced by Hellhoff, of Berlin; stated to be composed of nitrobenzene, potassium nitrate, sulphur, and Kieselguhr.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 764/1 Carbonite contains 25% of nitroglycerin.

1931 W. Payman & I. C. F. Statham Firedamp Explosions viii. 123 The latter regulation cuts out the old ‘Carbonite’ class of explosives, which..appears to be the one class of explosive capable of causing the ignition of coal dust more rapidly than firedamp.

1980 D. Attias & L. Smith Empire strikes Back Notebk. 107 Threepio: They've encased him in carbonite. He should be quite well-protected—if he survives the freezing process, that is.

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 May g1 Their mission..is to rescue Han Solo, decorating a wall of Jabba's rec room while still suspended in the ‘carbonite’ hibernation where ‘Empire’ left him.

1996 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 8 May The greatest X-Files mystery of all... Why doesn't David Duchovny's face move? It's as if he's been frozen in carbonite.

2002 Michigan Law Rev. 100 1742 Unless you've been frozen in carbonite or are hopelessly gullible, it must have occurred to you..that environmental activists are exaggerating just a bit.