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Japanese
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珪素
硅素
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Etymology
Compound of 珪 (kei, “silicon”, from 珪土 (keido, “silica”)) + 素 (so, “element”). Appears in the 1900 work 化学語彙 (Kagaku Goi, “Chemical Vocabulary”) by 櫻井錠二 (Sakurai Jōji).[1]
The spelling shifted to using katakana for the kei portion as part of a general trend in Japanese natural sciences.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
ケイ素 • (keiso)
- silicon, Si
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