carbon tet vs tetrachloride

carbon tet and tetrachloride both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carbon tet	Yes	No	No	No
tetrachloride	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tetrachloride is a hypernym of carbon tet; that is, tetrachloride is a word with a broader meaning than carbon tet:

carbon tet: a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined
tetrachloride: any compound that contains four chlorine atoms per molecule

Other hypernyms of carbon tet include dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent.

carbon tet (noun)	tetrachloride (noun)
a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined	any compound that contains four chlorine atoms per molecule