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Silica

Sil′i-ca

,
Noun.
[NL., from L.
silex
,
silics
, a flint.]
(Chem.)
Silicon dioxide, SiO[GREEK]. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.

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silica

silica

See also: sílica

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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, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.