Category:Silicide

Sil"i*cide, n. (chem.)

Defn: a binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary. [r.] 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.