SILICON OXIDE

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does silicon oxide mean? 

• SILICON OXIDE (noun)
  The noun SILICON OXIDE has 1 sense:

1. a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechartelierite

  Familiarity information: SILICON OXIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILICON OXIDE (noun)

Meaning:

A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechartelierite

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Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

silica; silicon dioxide; silicon oxide

Hypernyms ("silicon oxide" is a kind of...):

oxide (any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silicon oxide"):

chert (variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz)

flint (a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony)

silex (a pure form of finely ground silica)

Holonyms ("silicon oxide" is a substance of...):

cristobalite (a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks)

lechartelierite (a mineral form of vitreous or glassy silica; formed by the melting of quartz sand (as by lightning or a meteorite))

quartz (a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities)

tridymite (a mineral form of silica)