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US
/ˌkɑɹbɝˈəndəm/
]
[ UK /kˌɑːbɔːɹˈʌndəm/ ]
[ UK /kˌɑːbɔːɹˈʌndəm/ ]
NOUN
- an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals
How To Use carborundum In A Sentence
- If the material is to be left in some one of the flat-backed, rounded top forms known as cabochon cut, the surfaces need only to be smoothed (by means of very fine abrasives such as fine emery applied by means of laps, or even by fine emery or carborundum cloth), and they are then ready for polishing. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
- A compound known as silicon carbide, also known as carborundum, is one of the hardest substances known.
- He subsequently used the furnace to volatilize many substances which had been regarded as infusible and to prepare many new compounds, particularly carbides, silicides and borides; in 1891 he discovered carborundum. Henri Moissan - Biography
- Each specimen was cut and polished along the median dorsoventral plane with a graded series of carborundum and diamond pastes.
- In the new method, the brand-name abrasive substance - Carborundum - is used to roughen the surface of the plate from which a mezzotint print is made.
- It is named for Edward Acheson, a U.S. inventor best known for the invention of the highly effective abrasive material Carborundum. Archive 2010-05-01
- Before inoculating, 600-mesh carborundum was dusted on the leaves.
- Control plants were also dusted with carborundum and mock inoculated with a sample volume of potassium phosphate buffer.
- Crisco balopticon lysol, jello bellans, carborundum! Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation
- The upper epidermis of the leaf was abraded with carborundum.