Johannesburg - Sublime Technologies, South Africa's only producer of silica carbide (SiC), will spend R100 million in the next two years building two new furnaces to produce the substance that is ...

Union Carbide Corp., the same company responsible ... But here’s the problem: Workers were forced to break through 99.4% pure silica. At the time, experts knew that miners who inhaled silica ...

The carbides could achieve improved communications and thermal regulation in technologies including satellites and hypersonic aircraft. A group of scientists led by Duke University have engineered ...