silicide
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of silicide
1865–70; silic(on) + -ide ( def. )
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Manufacturing silicide fuel for the TRR breaches the deal’s 15-year moratorium on uranium metallurgy, as an intermediate step in the process involves working uranium metal.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 15, 2021
With a thermal conductivity higher than traditional fuel made from uranium oxide, uranium silicide is deemed more efficient and safer.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 15, 2021
Iran would irradiate uranium silicide pellets in the reactor to produce medical isotopes, primarily molybdenum-99.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 15, 2021
SiGNa makes a sodium silicide powder that, when mixed with water, releases hydrogen gas that many fuel cells use to create an electrical charge.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 3, 2011
Fraenkel has found that magnesium silicide is not decomposed by water or an alkaline solution, but that dilute hydrochloric acid acts upon it and spontaneously inflammable hydrogen silicide results.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
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