A chemical compound containing both carbon and nitrogen bonded to another element, often used in advanced coatings and materials.
From carbon + nitride (nitrogen compound). This is a systematic chemical term combining two nonmetallic elements; nitride comes from nitrogen + -ide (suffix for compounds).
Carbonitrides are the secret ingredient in tools that cut through steel—they're engineered at the atomic level to be harder than their parent compounds, showing how mixing elements can create something greater than the sum of its parts.
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