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ekasilicon

noun

Etymology

From eka- + silicon. The name was given by Dmitri Mendeleev.

  1. derived from silex
  2. prefixed as ekasilicon — “eka + silicon”

Definitions

  1. The predicted element lying below silicon in the periodic table — later named germanium.

The neighborhood

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