carburize's Usage Examples:

thick are carburized and so converted into high carbon " blister steel," by heating them in contact with charcoal in a closed chamber to about 1000° C.

The many steel objects which need an extremely hard outer surface but a softer and more malleable interior may be carburized superficially by heating them in contact with charcoal or other carbonaceous matter, for instance for between 5 and 48 hours at a temperature of 800° to goo° C.

Moreover, the coals which deoxidized the iron would inevitably carburize some lumps of it, here so far as to turn it into the brittle and relatively useless cast iron, there only far enough to convert it into steel, strong and very useful even in its unhardened state.

thick are carburized and so converted into high carbon " blister steel," by heating them in contact with charcoal in a closed chamber to about 1000° C.

"thick are carburized and so converted into high carbon " blister steel," by heating them in contact with charcoal in a closed chamber to about 1000° C.

And it was the lengthen ing of the forge, and the length and intimacy of contact between ore and fuel to which it led, that carburized the metal and turned it into cast iron.

The impact face is thus carburized to a depth of about 14 in.

In the United States the charge usually consists chiefly of wrought iron, and in melting in the crucible it is carburized by mixing with it either charcoal or " washed metal," a very pure cast iron made by the Bell-Krupp process (§ 107).

charges in closed crucibles, and then casting it into ingots or other castings, though in addition the metal while melting may be carburized.

50% of chromium, deeply carburized on its impact face.

(2) The carburizing incidentally carburizes the brickwork of the furnace, and thus protects it against corrosion by the molten slag.

These two things are done simultaneously by heating and melting the ore in contact with coke, charcoal or anthracite, in the iron blast furnace, from which issue intermittently two molten streams, the iron now deoxidized and incidentally carburized by the fuel with which it has been in contact, and the mineral matter, now called " slag.

Synonyms:

turn, carburise, carbonize, carbonise, change state,

Antonyms:

curdle, nitrify, empty, die, worsen,