Charcoal vs Carbide - What's the difference?
charcoal | carbide |
(uncountable) Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
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, chapter=2 (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
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(countable) A drawing made with charcoal.
A very dark gray colour.
Of a dark gray colour.
Made of charcoal.
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, chapter=2 (chemistry) Any binary compound of carbon and a more electropositive element
(chemistry) The polyatomic ion C22−, or any of its salts.
(chemistry) The monatomic ion C4−, or any of its salts.
(chemistry) A carbon-containing alloy or doping of a metal or semiconductor, such as steel.
(chemistry) Tungsten carbide.
(cycling) trivial name for calcium carbide (CaC2), used to produce acetylene in bicycle lamps in the early 1900s.
As nouns the difference between charcoal and carbide
is that charcoal is impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen while carbide is any binary compound of carbon and a more electropositive element.As an adjective charcoal
is of a dark gray colour.As a verb charcoal
is to draw with charcoal.charcoal
English
(wikipedia charcoal)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal .}}
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
