Combined with or containing two equivalents of carbon; a chemical state where a substance has absorbed carbon in a specific way.
From bi- (two) + carbureted (past participle of carbureate, meaning to combine with carbon). Used in 19th-century chemistry and metallurgy.
Early chemists and blacksmiths used this term to describe metals that had absorbed exactly two times the normal amount of carbon—a precise way of controlling what the metal would do!
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