silane

See also: Silane

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌɪleɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪleɪn/

Noun

silane (plural silanes)

1. (chemistry) Any of a group of silicon hydrides that are analogous to alkanes (the paraffin hydrocarbons); especially the parent compound SiH₄
2. (inorganic chemistry) monosilane (SiH₄)
3. (organic chemistry) Any organic derivative of monosilane

Derived terms

• acylsilane
• alkoxysilane
• alkylsilane
• allenylsilane
• allylsilane
• azidosilane
• chlorodimethylsilane
• chlorosilane
• cyclopentasilane
• dichlorodifluorosilane
• dichlorosilane
• dimethylchlorosilane
• dimethyldichlorosilane
• dimethylsilane
• epoxysilane
• fluorochlorosilane
• halosilane
• hexafluorodisilane
• hexamethyldisilane
• hydrosilane
• iodosilane
• mercaptosilane
• oligosilane
• organosilane
• polysilane
• silanate
• silane-modified polymer
• silanide
• silanization
• silanize
• silanyl
• tetrachlorosilane
• tetraphenylsilane
• trichlorosilane
• trisilane
• vinylsilane

 

• silyl, monosilanyl

Related terms

Related terms

• disilane
• disilene
• disilyne
• silene
• silenyl
• silyne
• silynyl

Translations

a silicon hydride that is analogous to alkanes

• Catalan: silà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硅烷 (zh) (guīwán)

• Kazakh: силан (silan)
• Portuguese: silano (pt) m

monosilane

• Czech: silan m, křemíkovodík m

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} silaan n
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} silano (it) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} silano m

See also

• alkane, the carbon analogs to silanes

Anagrams

• A-lines, Selina, aliens, alines, laines, lianes, lisena, saline, slaine