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
In ligneous character, one of these almost precisely resembles the grain of the extant beech, and this specimen was wormeaten before it was converted into silex.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
A German provincial term, universally adopted in scientific language for a simple mineral composed of pure silex, or earth of flints: rock-crystal is an example.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The residue is chiefly sulphur, with a little carbonate of lime and silex.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Etym., silex, flint, because found in that mineral.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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