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A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica,

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A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CARBONATATION
  The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• CARBONIDE
  A carbide.
• ELEMENTAL
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• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
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• POWDER
  1. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily. 2. To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• STATE SOCIALISM
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• COMBINE
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• AMORPHOUS
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  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
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