[f. next + -ATION.] a. Conversion into (mere) carbon, charcoal or coke. b. Charging with carbon or carbonic acid. c. Combining chemically with carbon; CARBURIZATION.
1804. Hatchett, in Phil. Trans., XCIV. 390. Vegetable matter in an incipient state of carbonization.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 351. The heat of the tuff in Herculaneum and Pompeii was proved by the carbonization of the timber, corn, papyrus-rolls, and other vegetable substances there discovered.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 182. These changes of the blood … its secondary excessive carbonization.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 899. (Steel) The carbonization or conversion is effected, as it were, in layers.
