What is "silex"

Silex \Si"lex\, n. [L., a finit, a pebblestone.] (Min.) Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

n. 1 (context archaic English) flint. 2 A finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc.

1. n. a pure form of finely ground silica

2. a vacuum coffee maker

Silex is any of various forms of ground stone. In modern contexts the word refers to a finely ground, nearly pure form of silica or silicate.

In the late 16th century, it meant powdered or ground up " flints" (i.e. stones, generally meaning the class of "Hard Rocks")

It was later used in 1787 when describing experiments in a published paper by Antoine Lavoisier where such earths are mentioned as the source of his isolation of the element silicon. Silex is now most commonly used to describe finely ground silicates used as pigments in paint.

Silex is any of various forms of ground stone.

Silex may also refer to:

• Silex, Indiana, an unincorperated community
• Silex, Missouri, a village in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States
• Silex (web framework), a micro web application framework written in PHP
• Silex website builder, a free and open source HTML website builder
• The SILEX Process, a laser separation technique for uranium enrichment
• Proctor Silex, a company that produced vacuum coffee makers and other small appliances

Silex is a micro web framework written in PHP and based on Symfony, Twig (template engine) and Doctrine (database abstraction). It is MIT Licensed.

The general purpose of Silex is to be as lightweight as you need it to be, as it is made for it to be as easy as possible to add features and extend the Silex base. Silex can be used for the creation of small web applications (e.g. REST APIs) as this is the main case for micro frameworks, however Silex can be extended into a full stack MVC framework.

Silex comes in two available versions; 'fat' and 'slim'. The difference between these being that the fat version is fully featured and includes database abstraction, a template engine and various Symfony components. Whereas the slim version just comes with a basic routing engine.