British English form: to remove carbon from steel or iron, usually through heating in an oxidizing environment.
British variant spelling of decarburize, using -ise instead of -ize. Follows British English conventions that preserve the -ise ending in verbs.
Whether engineers 'decarburise' or 'decarburize,' they're solving the same metallurgical problem that has frustrated ironworkers for over a thousand years!
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