carbide

English Thesaurus

1. a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	inorganic compound,
definition	:	any compound that does not contain carbon (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	calcium carbide,
definition	:	a grey salt of calcium (CaC) used in making acetylene (noun.substance)

hyponym	:	silicon carbide,
definition	:	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 (noun.substance)