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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
originFrom New Latin silica, from Latin silex (“hard stone, flint”), on model of alumina, soda.
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