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SILICON CARBIDE
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I. (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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Hypernyms ("silicon carbide" is a kind of...):
carbide (a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element)
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