How to Use carbide in a Sentence
carbide
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It’s equipped with a 10-inch, 24-tooth carbide blade as well a miter gauge.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023
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So why not just make the whole disc out of tungsten carbide?
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2019
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Police went to the home of one of the suspects and recovered the carbide.
—cleveland, 12 May 2022
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Cork grips and neoprene wrist straps are easy on hands, even after miles of use, and the durable carbide tips will last years.
—Whitney Spivey, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
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Get the type of scraper that has tungsten-carbide blades, which stay sharper longer and cut much quicker than high-speed steel blades.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2019
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What’s different are the ten carbide spikes added to each shoe’s sole, spread across the fore and rear of the foot for traction on icy surfaces over flat and hilly terrain.
—Adam W. Chase, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2023
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The key here is that the lithium is usually stored as a light and low-density lithium carbide.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2018
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Bore on your marks using a hammer drill and a carbide-tip masonry bit sized to suit the plastic screw anchors.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2017
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The steel blade’s teeth are made of cermet carbide teeth, which combine the heat resistance of ceramic with the toughness of metal.
—Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2019
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Each of the 48 teeth on this blade are tipped with a ceramic-carbide material known as Cermet.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2020
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Silicon carbide fibers are strong along their length but can snap across their width under high pressure.
—Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 26 June 2017
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For smaller jobs with ¼-inch or narrower grout joints, use a grout rake, which is a small hand tool that has a steel blade covered with super-sharp carbide grit.
—Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2021
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Tungsten carbide bits have a ceramic tip bonded to the steel and are used for concrete, masonry, glass and tile.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
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Surveillance video showed two men stole the carbide, one of whom used a key card belonging to a current employee to enter the room.
—cleveland, 12 May 2022
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Metal cleats are durable and built for rugged terrain: They are made from stainless steel, aluminium, or carbide steel.
—Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2020
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There's a new permanent magnet motor and a silicon-carbide inverter, and now the motor drives the rear wheels, not the fronts.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
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Start by using 600-grit wet/dry silicon-carbide sandpaper wrapped around a sanding block to sand smooth any big blobs of dried paint.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2019
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Fine details and small bones are cleaned using carbide needles mounted in pin vises.
—Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
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The molten mixture filled the pores, and the zirconium reacted with the tungsten carbide, replacing the tungsten.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
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Malmstadt and his colleagues aren’t the first to use metal carbide nanoparticles to recycle CO2.
—Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 19 Feb. 2020
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They’re made of stainless steel, and have durable and powerful carbide cutters to handle any line that needs snipping with a minimum of effort.
—Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
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For starters, its titanium case is topped with a dense carbide coating to protect against abrasions, erosions, etc.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2022
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The paper also reported the work could be done in a matter of minutes using diamond grit and tungsten carbide blades.
—William Cummings, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2019
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Now, there’s an in-between option: Porsche Surface Coated Brakes, which use iron rotors coated in a 0.1-mm layer of tungsten carbide.
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019
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The hydrogen then moves through channels (coated with niobium carbide to resist corrosion) that run through the core from top to bottom.
—Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
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After placing a new 10-inch carbide blade on the arbor (the shaft the blade goes on), Romanski used a machinist's square to ensure the blade was perpendicular to the table.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2018
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This carbide-tip reciprocating saw blade is 50 times as durable as a standard metal blade, says Milwaukee, and can convert even steel pipe or cast-iron waste lines to scrap.
—Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 13 Sep. 2020
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Manufactured in Germany, these bits contain a rock carbide tip that helps increase their lifespan.
—Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
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Schmidt is clearly still smarting from the rejection, so Cece gives him a Tungsten carbide bracelet to show her appreciation for his feelings.
—Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2020
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Bring hiking poles with carbide tips and microspikes for traction, and always check conditions locally with tourist offices before striking off.
—Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
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