English Explanatory Dictionary

silicium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The chemical element silicon.

Word forms

silicium

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin silicium, from Latin silex (“flint”) + -ium. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808

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