Chem. [f. CARB- + -IDE.] A compound of carbon with an element, as hydrogen or a metal, as Iron carbide; less usual than the older equivalent carburet.
c. 1865. J. Wylde, in Circ. Sc., I. 308/2. The combinations of sulphur with metals are termed sulphides … of carbon, carbides.
1879. Athenæum, 6 Sept., 312/2. Native iron carbides of Greenland.
1879. G. Prescott, Sp. Telephone, 434. Carbides of hydrogen obtained as secondary products.
