To combine with carbon or to carbonize; an older or technical term for carbonation or carburization.
From Latin 'carbo' (carbon) + '-ure' suffix, used in French and technical Latin to describe chemical processes.
Carbure is mostly obsolete in English but survives in 'carburize' (a metallurgical process)—it shows how chemistry roots borrowed from Latin created multiple English words from the same core.
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