Color Names

Carbide

Dark, industrial blue, forged in a factory from metal and carbon.

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Carbide is a medium blue, close to navy.

It can be described as medium, moderate, dim and gloomy.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Carbide

Carbide

In chemistry, a carbide usually describes a compound composed of carbon and a metal. In metallurgy, carbiding or carburizing is the process for producing carbide coatings on a metal piece.

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carbide

Noun

  1. Any binary compound of carbon and a more electropositive element
  2. The polyatomic ion .mw-parser-output .template-chem2-su{display:inline-block;font-size:80%;line-height:1;vertical-align:-0.35em}.mw-parser-output .template-chem2-su>span{display:block;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output sub.template-chem2-sub{font-size:80%;vertical-align:-0.35em}.mw-parser-output sup.template-chem2-sup{font-size:80%;vertical-align:0.65em}C2−2, or any of its salts.
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