CARBONISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbonisation mean? 

• CARBONISATION (noun)
  The noun CARBONISATION has 1 sense:

1. the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens)

  Familiarity information: CARBONISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARBONISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

carbonisation; carbonization

Hypernyms ("carbonisation" is a kind of...):

destructive distillation (heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products)

Derivation:

carbonise (turn into carbon, as by burning)