silicon dioxide

What does silicon dioxide mean?

silicon dioxide means "a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite".

What is another word for silicon dioxide?

Close synonyms include silica, silicon oxide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silicon dioxide a common word?

silicon dioxide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for silicon dioxide come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.