Silica Definition

sĭlĭ-kə
noun
A glassy, very hard mineral, silicon dioxide, SiO2, found in a variety of forms, including quartz, opal, chalcedony, sand, or chert.
Webster's New World
Silicon dioxide.
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Noun

Singular:
silica
Plural:
silicas

Origin of Silica

  • Origin: 1585-95; in Latin silex (“hard stone, flint"). Subsequently, silicon was first identified by the chemist Antoine Lavoisier in 1787 as a component element of the silex, or silicis for flint, and more generally what were termed "flints" during the era, nowadays as we would say "silica" or more formally, silicate.

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin from Latin silex silic- hard stone, flint

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Silica Sentence Examples

  • Silica is continually being added to the ocean.

  • Either silica or tin may be present.

  • The view, often repeated, that the saccharum of the ancients is the hydrate of silica, sometimes found in bamboos and known in Arabian medicine as tabashir, is refuted by Yule, Anglo-Indian Glossary, p. 654; see also Not.

  • The atomic weight of silicon has been determined usually by analysis of the halide compounds or by conversion of the halides into silica.

  • The metal as prepared by electrolysis generally contains traces of aluminium and silica.

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Words Starting With

SSISIL

Words Ending With

ACAICA

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