Process for producing high purity silicon carbide by calcination and a carbohydrate and silicon oxide

The present invention includes a silicon oxide, industrial for the preparation of the reaction according to the method of manufacturing silicon carbide, particularly for or compositions containing silicon carbide production of silicon carbide at elevated temperatures of the carbon sources with carbohydrates a method for. Furthermore, the present invention provides a high purity silicon carbide, compositions containing the same, to the use in the production of use as well as electrodes and other articles as a catalyst.