different between carborundum vs soot

English

Etymology

Blend of carbon +? corundum; originally a trade name.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??b????nd?m/

Noun

carborundum (uncountable)

1. Crystals of silicon carbide used as an abrasive.
   • 1892, Nikola Tesla, Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency, Wildside Press LLC ?ISBN, page 73

     There is no doubt that such a button — properly prepared under great pressure — of carborundum, especially of powder of the best quality, will withstand the effect of the bombardment fully as well as anything we know.

   • 1976, M.R. Walter, Stromatolites, Elsevier ?ISBN, page 28

     This can most readily be done by use of carborundum marking. The procedure involves successive marking of the same mat with layers of carborundum at least twice.

   • 1995, Reg F. Chapman, Gerrit de Boer, Regulatory Mechanisms in Insect Feeding, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 22

     At the same times, samples were taken to determine that the carborundum treatment did increase the amount of wear of the mandibles compared with insects on the diet without carborundum powder.

   • 2008, Gerald W. R. Ward, The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art, Oxford University Press ?ISBN, page 83

     Print made by combining carborundum—a carbon and silicon compound customarily used for polishing by abrasion—with synthetic resin or varnish (see also Prints, §III, 5).

Translations

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Carborundum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “carborundum”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

French

Noun

carborundum m (plural carborundums)

1. carborundum

Italian

Noun

carborundum m (invariable)

1. Carborundum

English

Etymology

From Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English s?t, from Proto-Germanic *s?t? (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ?-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *sa?a (“soot”) (Russian ????? (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian ?????? (sážda)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/, /su?t/
• (now dialectal) IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t, -u?t
• Homophone: suit (in some dialects)

Noun

soot (usually uncountable, plural soots)

1. Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

Synonyms

• lampblack

Related terms

Translations

Verb

soot (third-person singular simple present soots, present participle sooting, simple past and past participle sooted)

1. (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.

See also

• carbon black

References

Anagrams

• Oost, SOTO, Soto, Toso, otos

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sw?t.

Adjective

soot

1. Alternative form of swete

Etymology 2

From Old English s?t, from Proto-Germanic *s?t?.

Alternative forms

• soote, sot, soth, suotte, soyte, sood, soeth, sote
• (Northern ME) sute, sude

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?t/

Noun

soot (uncountable)

1. soot

Derived terms

• sooty

Descendants

• English: soot
• Scots: suit, sute

References

• “s??t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.