• Silicon Carbide Synonyms:
  
  Silicon carbide powder, fused silicon carbide, SiC, silicon carbide crystals, silicon carbide wafers, silicon carbide boule, silicon carbide platelet, fabrications, synthetic, powder, grit
  

• Silicon Carbide Formula:
  
  SiC

• Silicon Carbide Description:

1) Produced in electric resistance furnaces with a mixture of coke, sand, sawdust, and a small amount of salt. It is blocky and sharp edged. Also from Sic crystals.

2) It is extremely hard, has a high Thermal Conductivity and low thermal expansion. Not attacked by most acids and alkaline solutions. It dissociates in molten iron and steel. It oxidizes slowly in air above 800 deg.C.

• Silicon Carbide Typical Chemical Properties Available:

Various purities available from a low purity metallurgical grade (90.0%), to 99.0% (black), 99.2% (black), 99.5% (dark green), 99.7% (light green), and up to 99.9995% for wafers and boule.

• Silicon Carbide Typical Physical Properties Available:

Available as irregular shaped powder, crystals, platelets, wafer and boule. Numerous size distributions available from very coarse grits (1/2" pieces) all the way down to 20-100 nanometer particles

• Silicon Carbide Nominal Physical Constants:

• Silicon Carbide Typical Applications:

Bonded abrasive products, abrasive grits, blasting, lapping & honing compounds, semiconductor wafers, quartz crystals, hard metals, refractories, metallurgical purposes, production of exponential resistors, wire sawing, construction industry, a filler in plastics and composites, ceramic sintered parts, ferrites, soft metals, gettering, electric heating elements, and lightning arresters

• Silicon Carbide Typical Packaging:

Drums, bags, drums, super sacks & loose bulk

• Silicon Carbide TSCA (SARA Title III) Status:

Yes

• Silicon Carbide CAS Number:

409-21-2