Carburize
to cause to unite with carbon.
to carburet.
Historical Examples
Bessemer’s next difficulty was to carburize his pure iron, and thus to make it into steel.
Stories of Invention Edward E. Hale
verb
another word for carbonize (sense 2), carbonize (sense 3)
(transitive) to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) so that the surface can be hardened by heat treatment
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