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Silicon Carbide

Cilicon Carbide

Is a man made mineral with excellent structure and stunning colour.

 

(SiC), also known as carborundum or moissanite (name given from the french researcher Dr. Henri MOISSAN who first identified it in 1905), is a solid compound made of 50% carbon and 50% silicon. Naturally occurring SiC is found only in minute quantities in exceptional geological places like diamond containing chimneys, kimberlitic volcanic openings and even in certain types of meteorite. Virtually all of the silicon carbide sold in the world is synthetic.

 

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Uploaded on April 21, 2008