Sentence examples for carbide from inspiring English sources

Leaving aside all the other issues that swirl around narcotics, the way the cocaine base is prepared leads to the dumping in the water of millions of gallons of kerosene, sulphuric acid, acetone, solvent, and tonnes of lime and carbide.

One approach has been to dope it with compounds like silicon carbide or boron nitride that have matching crystalline lattice structures.

He and his colleagues have discovered that the conditions change if a photovoltaic cell is placed a few hundred nanometres (billionths of a metre) from a hot surface made of silicon carbide alloy.

When hit with laser light of the correct frequency, it becomes conductive.The DWA, then, is a tube with an inner wall made of the high-gradient insulator and a series of silicon carbide switches along its length.

The insulator in question is silicon carbide.

Boron carbide (B4C) has similar properties.

This done, it uses a tungsten-carbide blade to slice around the outline of the object (ie, between the heavily and lightly glued areas).

This consists of synthetic diamond powder that is formed into a thin plate and bonded to tungsten-carbide studs by sintering (fusing by heating the material below the melting point).

Years ago, Roy Jenkins asked me if I recalled that, in The Great Crash, Kenneth Galbraith had identified the beginning of the interwar slump as the day when the value of shares in Union Carbide plunged from several dollars to a few cents.

Human-rights activists conducted a "people's tribunal" that indicted Union Carbide, the Gap and other firms for crimes against humanity.

Union Carbide was subsequently bought in 2001 by another American company, Dow Chemical, which has just signed a £7m ($10.8m) sponsorship deal with Locog to emblazon the company name on the "wrapping" around the Olympic stadium.