Word Meanings - SILICA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Silicon dioxide, SiO

DIOXIDE
An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide. An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide. Carbon dioxide. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
SILICON
A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica,
EKASILICON
The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekkabor.
BASILICON
An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.