different between silica vs sodalite

English

Etymology

Origin: 1585–95; in Latin silex (“hard stone, flint”). Subsequently, silicon was identified by the chemist Antoine Lavoisier in 1787 as a component element of the silex or silicis. Compare silicate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?l.?.k?/

Noun

silica (countable and uncountable, plural silicas)

1. Silicon dioxide.
2. Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
   • 1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, 2:

     Its Blair County property was sited at the foot of ganister-covered Dunnings Mountain to compete with the Mount Union plants making silica bricks for the steel industry.

Synonyms

• E551 when used as an anti-caking agent

Derived terms

Related terms

• silex
• silicon

Translations

See also

• quartz
• sand

References

Anagrams

• Cialis, Liasic, salici, sialic

English

Etymology

Named for the alkaline silicate composition.

Noun

sodalite (plural sodalites)

1. (mineralogy) A mineral of alkaline igneous and plutonic rocks that are low in silica, of the chemical composition of sodium aluminum silicate with chlorine, Na₄Al₃Si₃O₁₂Cl. Pink sodalite is sometimes called hackmanite. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite Group of silicate minerals.

Related terms

• soda

Translations

See also

• silica group
• lazurite

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Sodalite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “sodalite”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Anagrams

• altoside, diastole, diolates, elastoid, isolated, solidate