silica

From New Latin silica, from Latin silex (“hard stone, flint”),^[1][2] on model of alumina, soda.^[3]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪl.ɪ.kə/

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silica (countable and uncountable, plural silicas)

1. Silicon dioxide. [from 1801]^[1][2][3]
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.

• E551 when used as an anti-caking agent

• silex
• silicon

• quartz
• sand

• Cialis, Liasic, salici, sialic