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[edit] Structure
The text in this section refer to WC as exhibiting a "rock-salt" structure (face-centered cubic), yet the data table describes WC as exhibiting a hexagonal close-packed structure. There are incompatible and need attention. 137.53.85.122 (talk) 18:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)Alex Cranson
- Agreed. I need to revisit this summary table- it is confusing. If you are confident please take a shot at it - I will put it on my to do list. It all hinges on the packing of the metal atoms in the interstitial which differs from the metal-- perhaps this just unnecessarily complicated - the naming of close packing etc. is confusing for the uninitiated reader - perhaps a simpler list of actual structures without an attempt to summarise would be easier to understand. --Axiosaurus (talk) 10:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] What is a carbide
I'm not sure if this article's definion of a carbide is correct. It says it's a polyatomic ion (C2) but I thought that a carbide was simply a salt of carbon combined with a metal. I'm not a chemist, so I don't feel comfortable editing this main part of the article. Does anybody have any input on this? — Brim 07:09, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
"carbide" is not calcium carbide, it's just a short name that people use instead. I work at the last U.S. owned calcium carbide manufacturer (there are only 2 operational calcium carbide furnaces left in the U.S.) and we call it carbide as do most of our customers, but we all know it's really calcium carbide.--68.156.55.2 13:26, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Honestly, this page should not be called Carbide, it should be calcium carbide.--68.156.55.2 13:30, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I came to this page looking to find out what Calcium Carbide is and I found NOTHING. Could someone clean it up so that it provides a bit more information? There is actually a link in the article to Calcium carbide that does nothing but bring you back to this page.
Bathrobe 09:00, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
Is the picture (bluish rock) calcium carbide?HappyVR 14:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Disambiguation required?
Nokia (for whom I work for) has a set of software tools called Carbide (please see http://www.forum.nokia.com/carbide). The tools are generally referred to as the Carbide product family, with individual releases denoted by their target technology or use -- for instance, C++ products are called Carbide.c++. Although it doesn't currently exist, I would like to start a page that overviews the product family and points to individual product pages. How should this be resolved?
maahonen 02:43, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Name your hypothetical article something like: Carbide (software)
- Then, at the top of this (the Carbide) article, place a "disambiguation" line that is similar to this:
- For the Nokia software toolset, see Carbide (software).
- Atlant 13:04, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
