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Webster 1913 Edition
Silicide
Sil′i-cide
,Noun.
(Chem.)
A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary.
[R.]
Hydrogen silicide
(Chem.)
, a colorless, spontaneously inflammable gas,
SiH4
, produced artifically from silicon, and analogous to methane; – called also silico-methane
, silicon hydride
, and formerly siliciureted hydrogen
.