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Word: Silica
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 19th century: from Latin silex, silic- ‘flint’, on the pattern of words such as alumina
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈsɪlɪkə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a hard, unreactive, colourless compound which occurs as the mineral quartz and as a principal constituent of sandstone and other rocks.
Short Definition:hard, unreactive, colourless compound
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