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Bolide vs Boride - What's the difference?

bolide | boride |

As nouns the difference between bolide and boride

is that bolide is an extremely bright meteor while boride is .

bolide

English

(wikipedia bolide)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An extremely bright meteor
  • Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth
  • A fireball

    • Derived terms

    * superbolide

    Quotations

    The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.
    —Alan Harris

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    boride

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia boride) (en noun)
  • (chemistry) the B3− anion
  • (chemistry) any binary compound of boron and a more electropositive element

    • Derived terms

    * beryllium boride * boriding * calcium boride * cerium boride * cobalt boride * diboride * heptaboride * hexaboride * monoboride * pentaboride * tetraboride * triboride * yttrium boride * zirconium boride

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