các-bua

Các-bua canxi được sử dụng để sản xuất axetylen.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Carbide: A chemical compound consisting of carbon combined with a less electronegative element, especially calcium carbide (CaC₂).
   • Carburetor (archaic/technical): In older or specific technical contexts, it can refer to a device for mixing air with a flammable gas, or by extension, a carburetor in an internal combustion engine. (Note: This meaning is derived from the French "carbure" and is less common in modern general Vietnamese usage for 'carburetor'.)

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Các-bua canxi được sử dụng để sản xuất axetylen. (Calcium carbide is used to produce acetylene.)
  • Trong kỹ thuật cũ, các-bua trộn không khí với nhiên liệu. (In older engineering, a carburetor mixes air with fuel.)

Advanced Usage

• Technical/Industrial Context: The term is primarily used in chemistry, metallurgy, and materials science.
  • Các-bua vonfram rất cứng, dùng làm mũi khoan. (Tungsten carbide is very hard and is used for drill bits.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cacbua (Modern spelling): The modern, standardized Vietnamese spelling, often preferred in scientific texts.
  • Cacbua silic là một vật liệu mài mòn quan trọng. (Silicon carbide is an important abrasive material.)
• Bộ chế hòa khí: The common modern Vietnamese term for 'carburetor'.
• Hợp chất: Compound (general term).

Synonyms

• Hợp chất cacbua: Carbide compound (more descriptive).
• Chất cứng hợp kim: Hard alloy substance (contextual, for tool materials like tungsten carbide).

Related Phrases

• Các-bua hóa: To carburize (a metallurgical process of adding carbon to a metal surface).
  • Thép được các-bua hóa để tăng độ cứng bề mặt. (The steel is carburized to increase surface hardness.)

Related Idioms

(This is a technical term with no common idiomatic expressions.)