Any of various compounds of silicon with a more electropositive element or radical

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n. (context inorganic chemistry English) Any compound of silicon with a more electropositive element

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A silicide is a compound that has silicon with (usually) more electropositive elements. Silicon is more electropositive than carbon . Silicides are structurally closer to borides than to carbides . Similar to borides and carbides, the composition of silicides ...

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Silicide \Sil"i*cide\, n. (Chem.) 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 ...

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n. any of various compounds of silicon with a more electropositive element or radical