See also: sílica

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Origin: 1585–95; in Latin silex (hard stone, flint). Subsequently, silicon was identified by the chemist Antoine Lavoisier in 1787 as a component element of the silex[1] or silicis. Compare silicate.

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪl.ɪ.kə/
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silica (countable and uncountable, plural silicas)

  1. Silicon dioxide.
  2. Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
    • 1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, 2:
      Its Blair County property was sited at the foot of ganister-covered Dunnings Mountain to compete with the Mount Union plants making silica bricks for the steel industry.

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  1. ^ silex”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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