iron carbide

1. 1.

   a chemical compound that is a constituent of steel and cast iron; very hard and brittle

   Synonymscementite

   Broadercompound

Questions about iron carbide

What does iron carbide mean?

iron carbide means "a chemical compound that is a constituent of steel and cast iron; very hard and brittle".

What is another word for iron carbide?

Close synonyms include cementite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is iron carbide a common word?

iron carbide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.