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silicide


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Silicide  \Sil"i*cide\,  n.  (Chem.) 
  A  binary  compound  of  silicon,  or  one  regarded  as  binary.  [R.] 
 
  {Hydrogen  silicide}  (Chem.),  a  colorless,  spontaneously 
  inflammable  gas,  {SiH4},  produced  artifically  from 
  silicon,  and  analogous  to  methane;  --  called  also 
  {silico-methane},  {silicon  hydride},  and  formerly 
  {siliciureted  hydrogen}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  silicide 
  n  :  any  of  various  compounds  of  silicon  with  a  more 
  electropositive  element  or  radical 




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