silicide

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun silicide has 1 sense

silicide(n = noun.substance) - any of various compounds of silicon with a more electropositive element or radical;

CIDE DICTIONARY

silicide, n.

A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary. [1913 Webster]

Hydrogen silicide (Chem.), a colorless, spontaneously inflammable gas, SiH4, produced artifically from silicon, and analogous to methane; -- called also silico-methane, silicon hydride, and formerly siliciureted hydrogen.