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CARBIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbide mean? 

CARBIDE (noun)
  The noun CARBIDE has 1 sense:

1. a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive elementplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CARBIDE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

inorganic compound (any compound that does not contain carbon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carbide"):

calcium carbide (a grey salt of calcium (CaC) used in making acetylene)

silicon carbide (an extremely hard blue-black crystalline compound (SiC) used as an abrasive and a heat refractory material; crystals of silicon carbide can be used as semiconductors)


 Context examples 


Excludes carbides, carbonates and carbon oxides.

(Organic Chemical, NCI Thesaurus)



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