silicalite

noun

Etymology

From silica + -lite.

  1. derived from silex
  2. borrowed from silica
  3. suffixed as silicalite — “silica + lite

Definitions

  1. A polymorph of silica having a structure analogous to the zeolites

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for silicalite. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA