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carbonide

carbonide is the archaic form of carbide.

Meaning of carbide

Noun

carbide (plural carbides)

  1. Any binary compound of carbon and a more electropositive element
  2. The polyatomic ion C2−2, or any of its salts.
  3. The monatomic ion C⁴⁻, or any of its salts.
  4. A carbon-containing alloy or doping of a metal or semiconductor, such as steel.
  5. Tungsten carbide.
  6. trivial name for calcium carbide (CaC₂), used to produce acetylene in bicycle lamps in the early 1900s.

Forms of carbonide

pluralcarbonides

Origin of carbonide

From carbon + -ide.

Questions about carbonide

What is carbonide the archaic form of?
Carbonide is the archaic form of carbide.

Words near carbonide in the dictionary

  1. carbonic anhydrase
  2. carbonic anhydrases
  3. carbonic anhydride
  4. carbonic paper
  5. carbonic papers
  6. carbonide
  7. carbonides
  8. carboniferous
  9. carbonific
  10. carbonification
  11. carbonifics

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