Assertion: silicon carbide | /r/CreatedBy | edward goodrich acheson
Facets:
value: in 1891
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Silicon carbide (SiC) was first made by Edward Goodrich Acheson in 1891, who named it carborundum to reference its intermediate hardness and abrasive power between diamond (an allotrope of carbon) and corundum (aluminium oxide).