Silex is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 52 anagrams from letters in Silex (eilsx).
1585-95; Latin silex, stem silic- hard stone, flint, boulder
In clay it finds the best constituents of its development—moisture, silex, lime and alumnia.
All this rich land was thickly strewed with small fragments of fossil wood, in silex, agate, and chalcedony.
Other filling material as silicate of soda, borax, talc or silex are used.
This last is composed of common carbonate of lime and silex, but the quantity of each has not been accurately determined.
Quartz is silex in its purest form; flint usually contains some admixture of alumine and oxide of iron.
They had implements of copper, as well as of silex, and porphyries.
The tower we see there was that of the windmill which ground the silex.
At the bottom of each pore a thin lamella of silex, perforated by four to six irregular, roundish, double-contoured porules.
The knives of silex, which I found last year in such great quantities, are as yet but rarely met with in this excavation.
The basis of every species of glass is silex, which is found in a state nearly pure in the sands of many situations.
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