Carbides
By admin • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: UncategorizedCARBIDES
All the various compounds of carbon with metals or other more electropositive elements are termed as carbides. True Carbides have the ion C4- (e.g. Al4C3). The properties of carbides resembles to those of salts. On hydrolysis they give methane and thus, were formerly called methanides. Dicarbides are compounds containing the ion C2-, these are also […]
