silica
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/ˈsɪl.ɪ.kə/
(UK)
Definition of silica
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)Silicon dioxide.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)Silicon dioxide.
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(countable, uncountable)Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
“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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Etymology
From New Latin silica, from Latin silex (“hard stone, flint”), on model of alumina, soda.
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