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adjective
Siliceous  adj.  (Written also silisious)  Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Siliceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... soapstone, containing a variety of substances, as alumina, silica, lime, soda, magnesia, and iron. The ranges on either side of the glen were generally varieties of gneiss and granite, in many of which feldspar predominated, coarse ferruginous sandstone, and a siliceous rock with mammillary hematite and hornblende. These, and a great mixture of iron ores, composed the first or eastern line ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt

... to that time is considered to be quite secure from the moment the Holi has been committed to the flames. What gave rise to the notion I have never been able to discover, but such is the general belief. I suppose the siliceous epidermis must then have become too hard, and the pores in the stem too much closed up to admit of the further depredation of ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman



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