silicium

si·li·cium

silicon

Origin of silicium

ModL: so named (1808) by Sir Humphry Davy from Classical Latin silex, flint (see silex) + -ium

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Noun

(uncountable)

(obsolete) The non-metallic chemical element silicon.

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From Latin silicium, from silex (“flint")

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In the following year he announced that silica was the oxide of a hitherto unrecognized element, which he named silicium, considering it to be a metal.

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