Carbides: Properties, Production, and Applications

I The Structure and Physicochemical Properties of Carbides.- Structures.- Thermodynamic and thermophysical properties.- Electrophysical and magnetic properties.- Physicomechanical properties.- Chemical properties.- II Methods of Producing Carbides.- III Carbides of Metals of Group I.- Carbides of the alkali metals.- Carbides of metals of the copper subgroup.- IV Carbides of Metals of Group II.- Carbides of beryllium, magnesium, and the alkaline-earth metals.- Carbides of the zinc subgroup.- V Carbides of the Transition Metals.- Carbides of scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanides.- Carbides of the actinides.- Carbides of metals of subgroup IVa.- Carbides of metals of subgroup Va.- Carbides of metals of subgroup VIa.- Carbides of metals of subgroup VIIa.- Carbides of metals of group VIII.- VI Carbides of Elements of the Boron Group.- VII Silicon Carbide.- VIII Chemical Properties of Carbides.- IX The Applications of Carbides.- References.