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Noun: silicon carbide
  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

Derived forms: silicon carbides

Type of: carbide

Encyclopedia: Silicon carbide

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