Meaning of sialic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to saliva.
   not-comparable
2. Composed predominantly of silica- and alumina-bearing minerals such as quartz and feldspar.
   not-comparable
3. Of or pertaining to sialic acid or its derivatives.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Near-synonym: ensialic”

“The total volume of these felsic rocks, variously estimated at 3 to 9 percent of the Cenozoic section, is much greater in Iceland than on other oceanic islands, and their abundance led early geologists to speculate that Iceland might be a small continental fragment covered by a thin veneer of basalt. Geophysical and petrologic evidence now rules out any possibility of sialic crust under the island. The siliceous differentiates have⟳ little or no potassium feldspar and differ⟳ from typical continental rhyolites and granites in their trace-element abundances and isotopic ratios.”

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