c 3 a 1 r 1 b 3 u 1 r 1 e 1 t 1
8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb combine with carbon
originCoined in 1788 by the translator of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique James St. John as a translation and partial calque of French carbure, with the original (noun) sense displaced by carbide during the mid-19th century. By surface analysis, carbon + -uret.
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Words from these letters
- bracer 10
- curber 10
- rubace 10
- acerb 9
- brace 9
- bract 9
- caber 9
- cabre 9
- cuber 9
- acture 8
- acuter 8
- arbute 8