Word: carbureted
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...this rating was to increase the percentage of isooctane (and similar compounds). Isooctane is a hydrocarbon, C8H18, which is one of the hundreds of compounds which make up the chemical mixture called gasoline. But isooctane alone makes a poor fuel because it is not volatile enough, does not readily carburet into explodible vapor...
Clémenceau: "I used to think he was a carburetor,? and then I read a few pages of him?no, he just didn't carburet. He has a kind of conscientious emptiness such as a Provengal would take on who is trying to attain an air of profundity. The Americans who read him between two halves of a football match must have a good laugh...
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