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What is carborundum?

What is carborundum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Crystals of silicon carbide used as an abrasive.
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Emery, carborundum and Alundum wheels are developed from the grindstone of the distant past.
Similarly, the edges of hoes and spades will benefit from being sharpened to a reasonably clean edge with a file or carborundum stone.
With a diamond, carborundum or zirconia button the photosphere can be as much as one thousand times the volume of the button.
A recent exhibit of his work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art featured his carborundum prints, his etchings, lithographs, aquatints and watercolors.
Visitors can see how O'Donoghue's painting is informed by his drawings and carborundum prints and vice versa.
They are built of enormous blocks of carborundum, and the task of entering the city seemed, to my escort of green warriors, an impossibility.

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