Noun: silica
| Singular | silica |
| Plural | silicas |
Sample Sentences
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Its Blair County property was sited at the foot of ganister-covered Dunnings Mountain to compete with the Mount Union plants making silica bricks for the steel industry. [1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, 2]
Nouns inflected like silica
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From New Latin silica, from Latin silex (“hard stone, flint”), on model of alumina, soda. See: Latin Nouns '
silex'.
Verbs referencing "silica"
Finnish Nouns
silika.