carbonize

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With the right equipment, we all have the ability to sous vide, slap chop, air fry, spiralize, carbonize and even slice our own bananas.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2014

Just the right mixture will neither burn nor carbonize and is said to be a "neutral" flame.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Manly, Harold P. (Harold Phillips)

Empyreu�ma, the smell arising from organic matter when subjected to the action of fire, but not enough to carbonize it entirely.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Then coal and ore were arranged in heaps and in successive layers, as the charcoal-burner does with the wood which he wishes to carbonize.

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules

Of course, the method employed to carbonize the materials is suspectible of variation, but the scientific principles involved are unchangeable, viz.:

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various