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Definition of Silicon carbide
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Silicon carbide
1. Noun. (chemistry) A binary compound of silicon and carbon, SiC; it is one of the hardest known materials, and is used as an abrasive, under the trade name Carborundum, and as a refractory material. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silicon Carbide
Literary usage of Silicon carbide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Mysore Geologists' Association (1918)
"Reduction by silicon carbide. This process was patented by FM Becket in 1907.
The process involves the reduction in two stages, the first by carbon and the ..."
2. Recent Advances in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1920)
"Silicon and silicon carbide. The electric furnace is now employed for the
manufacture of silicon on a commercial scale from silica and carbon. ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"silicon carbide, carborundum, is used for refractory purposes, fire brick, ...
It is present in certain alloys, ferro-silicon, silicon carbide, etc. ..."
4. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"silicon carbide, carborundum, is used for refractory purposes, fire brick, ...
It is present in certain alloys, ferro-silicon, silicon carbide, etc. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"silicon carbide.— Known under the trade names "carborundum," ... and "exo- lon"
silicon carbide is produced in large quantities by the process invented by ..."
6. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1912)
"silicon carbide BY FJ TONE The production of silicon carbide in the United ...
While there has been no expansion in the consumption of silicon carbide in ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"... silicon carbide, SiC. Very stable; insol. in H2SO4 and HNOS; sol. in fused
KOH at red heat. (Moissan, Bull. Soc. 1894, (3) 11. 997. ..."
8. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"silicon carbide is used instead of ferro-silicon as a source of silicon in steel
making. ... The amorphous silicon carbide, formerly a waste product, ..."
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