释义 |
unˈburn, v. [un-2 3.] trans. To restore from the effects of burning.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 485 To deprive them of oxygen is virtually to unburn them. 1869Q. Rev. CXXVI. 263 The duty of the plant, on the other hand, is to unburn carbonic acid, to sunder the molecules of that compound back again to their elements of carbon and oxygen. Hence unˈburning vbl. n.
1866Odling Anim. Chem. 72 The heat absorbed in the unburning, so to speak, of the hydrogen. |