silane

[ sil-eyn ]

nounChemistry.
  1. Also called silicon tetrahydride. a gas with an unpleasant odor, SiH4, soluble in water: used as a doping agent for semiconductors in the production of solid-state devices.

  2. any of a class of silicon hydrides analogous to the alkanes.

Origin of silane

1
<German Silan (1916); see silicon, -ane

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