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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

silex

silicis

, a flint: cf. F.

silicique

(Chem.)

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon;

as,

silicic

acid

Silicic acid

(Chem.)

an amorphous gelatinous substance,

Si(HO)4

, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts; – called also

orthosilicic acid

normal silicic acid

silicic ‎(not comparable)

relating to silica