Ek`a*sil"i*con (?), n. [Skr. ka one + E. silicon.] Chem.

The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekkabor.

 

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