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Answer for the clue "Another name for flint ", 5 letters:
silex

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n. a pure form of finely ground silica a vacuum coffee maker

Usage examples of silex.

The wood of the tree, in comparison with the bark, is relatively poor in silex, the duramen of an old tree giving only 2.

He, excuse me, she mounts a twin launcher for the SA-N-3 Goblet, and two quad launchers for SS-N-14 Silex antisub missiles.

Seeds of Phalaris were covered with a layer onefourth of an inch in thickness of very fine sand, consisting of extremely minute grains of silex coated with [page 475] oxide of iron.

The speaker stumbled sleepily past him toward the Silex, dressed in nothing but an athletic supporter.

In the Lowville of his youth there had been a diner with a plaque over the double Silex hotplate and that plaque had read IF YOU DON'T LIKE OUR TOWN, LOOK FOR A TIMETABLE.