Boussingault has shown that this is due to the formation of a silicide of platinum by means of the reduction of the silica of the carbon by the metal.
The most important one is carborundum, which is a silicide of carbon of the formula CSi.
Ferrosilicon is a silicide of iron alloyed with an excess of iron, which finds extensive use in the manufacture of certain kinds of steel.
To procure this gas silicide of magnesium is decomposed with cold diluted hydrochloric acid.
The electric furnace is used industrially to make calcium carbide from lime and coke, carbon silicide (carborundum) from coke and sand, and the metal aluminum from its compounds.
Fraenkel has found that magnesium silicide is not decomposed by water or an alkaline solution, but that dilute hydrochloric acid acts upon it and spontaneously inflammable hydrogen silicide results.
Should the gas contain hydrogen silicide siliciuretted hydrogen), solid silica will be produced similarly, and will play its part in causing obstruction.
According to Caro the silicon may be present both as hydrogen silicide and as silicon "compounds.
Nevertheless Wolff and Gerard have found hydrogen silicide in crude acetylene, and Lewes looks upon it as a common impurity in small amounts.
Carborundum, or silicide of carbon, is largely superseding emery and diamond dust as an abradant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silicide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
