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CARBORUNDU

Specialty Definition: CARBORUNDU

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Mining

Trade name for green, often iridescent, artificial carbon silicide, CSi. Hexagonal-rhombohedral plates. It is produced in an electric furnace and used as an abrasive and as a refractory material. Is useful for sharpening tools. Identical with moissanite. See also:moissanite. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CARBORUNDU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-n-o-r-r-u-u"

-3 letters: candour, rancour.

-4 letters: abound, arbour, ardour, around, auburn, bonduc, candor, carbon, corban, cornua, curran, durbar, rancor, roband, rurban, uncurb.

-5 letters: acorn, adorn, adunc, arbor, ardor, bacon, banco, baron, board, bound, bourn, brand, broad, bronc, bunco, buran, burro, carbo, carob, cobra, cornu, cruor, crura, dobra, doura, duroc, durra, narco, racon, radon, round, unbar, urban.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CARBORUNDU


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 52 42 4F 52 55 4E 44 55

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    .-.    -...    ---    .-.    ..-    -.    -..    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010010 01000010 01001111 01010010 01010101 01001110 01000100 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#82 &#66 &#79 &#82 &#85 &#78 &#68 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0052 0042 004F 0052 0055 004E 0044 0055

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37355236495255483855

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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