silex
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of silex
1585–95; < Latin silex, stem silic- hard stone, flint, boulder
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The name silicon is derived from the Latin word for flint, silex.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
This last is composed of common carbonate of lime and silex, but the quantity of each has not been accurately determined.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
There is a small jar of white powder representing the lime; another, still smaller, the silex; another the phosphorus.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
A siliceous rock is one mainly composed of silex.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
These carvings remain for many years, without being in the least defaced, for this p. 275marble having a great quantity of silex closely intermixed with carbonate of chalk, is extremely hard.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
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