Carbo load
Consume a large amount of carbohydrate food, as in Karen began carbo loading three days before the road race. This term, a clipping of “carbohydrate loading,” originated among marathon runners, who were advised to build up their strength before a race by eating quantities of foods like spaghetti. [ 1970s ]
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- Carbo-loading
Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- Carbonatation
saturation or reaction with carbon dioxide. Historical Examples The sirup, after passing through centrifugals, may be sent to second carbonatation tanks and mixed with juices being treated. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various About $60,000 of the appropriation was expended here in experiments in diffusion and carbonatation. Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, […]
- Carbonate
a salt or ester of carbonic acid. to form into a carbonate. to charge or impregnate with carbon dioxide: carbonated drinks. to make sprightly; enliven. Historical Examples Place the mineral in the cavity with a little of carbonate of soda, and blow upon it with the inner or oxidizing flame. The A B C of […]
- Carbonation
saturation with carbon dioxide, as in making soda water. reaction with carbon dioxide to remove lime, as in sugar refining. carbonization. noun absorption of or reaction with carbon dioxide another word for carbonization See carbonization n. 1881, from carbonic acid, an old name for carbon dioxide (see carbonate (n.)) + -ation.
- Carbonous
of, containing, or derived from carbon. Historical Examples The usual Xylaria has a white, sterile, central portion known as the stroma, bearing a carbonous crust. Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes C. G. Lloyd The walls of the perithecia are carbonous, and confluent with the crust. Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large […]