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Webster 1913 Edition
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.
Definition 2024
silica
silica
See also: sílica
English
Noun
silica (countable and uncountable, plural silicas)
- Silicon dioxide.
- 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.
- 1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, 2:
Synonyms
- E551 when used as an anti-caking agent
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silicon dioxide
silica group of the silicate minerals