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Flint vs Silex - What's the difference?

flint | silex |

As a proper noun flint

is a city in michigan.

As a noun silex is

(l).

flint

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  • A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
  • A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

    • Derived terms

    * gunflint

    See also

    * chert * ferrocerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

    • silex

    English

    Noun

    (silexes)
  • (archaic) Flint.
  • A finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc.

    • Anagrams

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