silicium

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silicium

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Learned borrowing from New Latin silicium, from Latin silex (“flint”) + -ium. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808.

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obsolete, uncountable The chemical element silicon.

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@misc{silicium_2026,
  title = {silicium},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/silicium},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}