Having been converted into carbon or a carbon compound; turned black and brittle through intense heat or chemical treatment.
From carbonize + -ed (past participle suffix). The -ed ending marks completion or state resulting from an action.
Carbonized fossils—like ancient insects trapped in amber that turned to carbon films—are how paleontologists read Earth's history, because carbon preserves a ghostly outline of what lived millions of years ago.
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