ppl. a. Chem. [f. prec. + -ED.] Combined with carbon, as in Carburetted hydrogen, the ‘fire-damp’ of miners, and chief constituent of coal-gas. Also impregnated with, or holding carbon in solution.
1802. Henry, in Phil. Trans., XCIII. 37. Carburetted hydrogen gas.
1812. Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 306. Carburetted hydrogene … is the gas evolved in stagnant waters.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 60/2. Animal fat is chiefly a … highly carburetted hydrate of oxygen.
1861. Smiles, Engineers, II. 227. He suggested … the employment of carburetted hydrogen gas, then coming into extensive use for lighting purposes.
1881. P. Smyth, in Nature, 430. The existence there of carburetted gas of some kind.
