| A key innovation is the use of sodium silicide to liberate hydrogen from water as needed by the hybrid fuel cell. |
| The barrier may be a thin film containing at least one of a nitride, oxide, boride, silicide, carbide and aluminide. |
| Carborundum, or silicide of carbon, is largely superseding emery and diamond dust as an abradant. |
| According to the company, sodium silicide is a safe, air-stable reactive metal powder that produces hydrogen at about half the pressure of a soda can. |
| These power packs, which contain sodium silicide, don't degrade over time, and when you add water, they produce the hydrogen needed for the conversion to electricity. |
| The new technology features a minimum number of process changes, such as strained silicon and a new nickel silicide, to shorten time to volume. |
