silicide

It combines with iron to form a silicide; and is present in this condition in cast iron.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
The most important one is carborundum, which is a silicide of carbon of the formula CSi.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry|William McPherson
Carborundum, or silicide of carbon, is largely superseding emery and diamond dust as an abradant.
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.|Edward W. Byrn
According to Caro the silicon may be present both as hydrogen silicide and as silicon "compounds."
Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use|F. H. Leeds

To procure this gas silicide of magnesium is decomposed with cold diluted hydrochloric acid.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II|Arnold Cooley

British Dictionary definitions for silicide

silicide

/ (ˈsɪlɪˌsaɪd) /

noun

any one of a class of binary compounds formed between silicon and certain metals

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