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A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than

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A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

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• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• COMMERCIALLY
  In a commercial manner.
• CARBONATATION
  The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• CARBONIDE
  A carbide.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• COMMERCIAL
  Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• HARDER
  A South African mullet, salted for food.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• MONOCARBONIC
  Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
• EKASILICON
  The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekkabor.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• HYDROCARBON
  A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• SUBCARBONIFEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.