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What (who) is silex - definition

TYPE OF MINERAL

silex         
n.
Silica, silicic acid, quartz, flint, oxide of silicon.
Silex         
·noun Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. ·see Silica, and Silicic.
silex         
['s??l?ks]
¦ noun silica, especially quartz or flint.
Origin
C16: from L., 'flint'.

Wikipedia

Silex

Silex is any of various forms of ground stone. In modern contexts the word refers to a finely ground, nearly pure form of silica or silicate.

In the late 16th century, it meant powdered or ground up "flints" (i.e. stones, generally meaning the class of "hard rocks")

It was later used in 1787 when describing experiments in a published paper by Antoine Lavoisier where such earths are mentioned as the source of his isolation of the element silicon. Silex is now most commonly used to describe finely ground silicates used as pigments in paint.

Examples of use of silex
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