Canadian English Meaning of silicon
silicon
Other Canadian English words related to silicon
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Nearest Words of silicon
- silicon bronze => Silicon bronze
- silicon carbide => Silicon carbide
- silicon chip => Silicon chip
- silicon dioxide => Silicon dioxide
- silicon oxide => Silicon dioxide
- silicon valley => Silicon Valley
- silicone => silicone
- silicone polymer => Silicone polymer
- silicone resin => Silicone resin
- silicone rubber => Silicone rubber
Definitions and Meaning of silicon in English
silicon (n)
a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
silicon (n.)
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, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.
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silicon
a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and s
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silicoidea => same as UK English, silicofluoride => silicofluoride, silicofluoric => Silicofluoric, silico- => silico-, silicle => Silicle,
