carbide vs silicon carbide

carbide and silicon carbide both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carbide	Yes	No	No	No
silicon carbide	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, silicon carbide is a hyponym of carbide; that is, silicon carbide is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than carbide:

carbide: a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element
silicon carbide: 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

Other hyponyms of carbide include calcium carbide.

carbide (noun)	silicon carbide (noun)
a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element	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

carbide vs silicon carbide

carbide and silicon carbide both are nouns.

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