different between carbonize vs carbonite

English

Etymology

carbon +? -ize

Verb

carbonize (third-person singular simple present carbonizes, present participle carbonizing, simple past and past participle carbonized)

1. To turn something to carbon, especially by heating it; to scorch or blacken.
2. (chemistry) To react something with carbon.

Derived terms

• carbonization
• decarbonization
• decarbonize

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

carbonize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of carbonizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of carbonizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of carbonizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of carbonizar

English

Etymology

From carbon +? -ite.

Noun

carbonite (plural carbonites)

1. An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
   • 1909, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Volume 79, page 550,

     Although this proved safe in the usual pit gas mixtures, yet it was found impossible to manipulate it, so another explosive, carbonite, made by the same firm, was tried. This was safe in small charges only ; improvements were made, and in September 1887 a carbonite consisting of saltpetre, cellulose, nitro-glycerine, and sulphuretted oil was found to be absolutely safe.
2. An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpetre, sulfur, and kieselguhr.
3. A naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke.
   • 1889, Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Knapp, Chemical Technology, page 119,

     In some Scottish localities, in the neighbourhood of trap dykes, coal is found to have been changed to coke ("carbonite"). Similar effects have been noticed (1882) in Midlothian, Chesterfield Co., Va., where the carbonite seam is 15 feet thick.

Anagrams

• bicornate, reboantic, toceranib