silica, silicon oxide, silicon dioxide
(noun) a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth’s crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
Source: WordNet® 3.1
silica (countable and uncountable, plural silicas)
Silicon dioxide.
Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
• E551 when used as an anti-caking agent
• Cialis, Liasic, salici, sialic
Source: Wiktionary
Sil"i*ca, n. Etym: [NL., from L. silex, silics, a flint.] (Chem.)
Definition: Silicon dioxide, SiO
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
