silicium

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

silicium

From Latin silex ('flint, pebble') with the suffix -ium (indicating a metal). Created by the English Sir Humphry Davy in 1808 from the word silica ('silica', silicon oxide), because flint is a variety of quartz (a mineral containing silicon).

Definitions

chimie
chimie physique
physique

Plural

siliciums

Translations

  • germangerman:Silizium
  • englishenglish:silicum
  • arabicarabic:سيلكون
  • chinesechinese:
  • koreankorean:실리콘
  • danishdanish:silicium
  • spanishspanish:silicio
  • finnishfinnish:pii
  • greekgreek:πυρίτιο
  • hebrewhebrew:צורן
  • italianitalian:silicio
  • japanesejapanese:シリコン
  • dutchdutch:silicium
  • polishpolish:krzem
  • portugueseportuguese:silício
  • russianrussian:силиций
  • swedishswedish:kisel
  • thaithai:ซิลิคอน
  • turkishturkish:silisyum
  • ukrainianukrainian:кремнiй

See also

silicène (cn.)