Carbides

Word CARBIDES
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Definitions and meanings of "Carbides"

What do we mean by carbides?

Any binary compound of carbon and a more electropositive element

The polyatomic ion C22−, or any of its salts.

The monatomic ion C4−, or any of its salts.

A carbon-containing alloy or doping of a metal or semiconductor, such as steel.

Tungsten carbide.

Trivial name for calcium carbide (CaC2), used to produce acetylene in bicycle lamps in the early 1900s.

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The word "carbides" in example sentences

Famous for his work with the electric furnace at high temperatures; prepared artificial diamonds, together with many new binary compounds such as carbides, silicides, borides, and nitrides; isolated fluorine and studied its properties and its compounds very thoroughly] ~Chemical properties. ❋ William McPherson (N/A)

The emphasis then shifted to testing materials and fuels (metal and ceramic oxides, carbides and nitrides of uranium and plutonium) for larger fast reactors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Surface coatings of various materials, typically other metals, alloys, and metal carbides or nitrides, can be applied using these processes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Columbium can be used in place of tantalum to make carbides. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This category breaks down into three subsets: oxides (alumina, zirconia), non-oxides (carbides, borides, nitrides) and composites (combinations of oxides and non-oxides). ❋ Unknown (2008)

One-half of the cobalt consumed in the United States was for use in super alloys, which are used mainly in defense aircraft gas turbine engines; 9% was for use in cemented carbides for cutting and wear-resistant applications; 18%, for various other metallic applications; and 24%, for a variety of chemical applications. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Carbon planets would be made mostly of carbides, although they might have iron cores and atmospheres. ❋ Andrew (2005)

The Environmental Protection Agency defines a volatile organic compound as “any compound of carbon, excluding carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides or carbonates, and ammonium carbonate, which participates in atmospheric photochemical reactions.” ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

In gas with extra carbon or too little oxygen, carbon compounds like carbides and graphite could form instead of silicates, Kuchner said at a conference on extrasolar planets in Aspen, Colorado. ❋ Andrew (2005)

My group has studied molecules as diverse as the platinocyanides, Chevrel phases, transition metal carbides, displacive transitions in NiAs, MnP and NiP, new metallic forms of carbon, the making and breaking of bonds in the solid state and many other systems. ❋ Unknown (1982)

In his celebrated electric furnace he succeeded in liquefying substances such as lime and magnesium oxide; in this way he produced calcium carbide and a whole series of other carbides, in pure and crystallized form, from which it was found that carbides were the most heat resistant of all chemical compounds. ❋ Unknown (1966)

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