SILICON CARBIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silicon carbide mean? 

• SILICON CARBIDE (noun)
  The noun SILICON CARBIDE has 1 sense:

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILICON CARBIDE (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting substances

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

carbide (a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element)