Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bearing, producing, or in partial combination with silica.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or containing silica; producing silica, or united with a portion of silica.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing silica; united with silica.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective yielding or bearing
silica
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It is a siliciferous subsulphate of alumina and potash, a compact feldspar, with the addition of sulphuric acid completely formed in it.
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It is a siliciferous subsulphate of alumina and potash, a compact feldspar, with the addition of sulphuric acid completely formed in it.
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