The chemical or industrial process of removing silica or silicate compounds from a material.
From 'desilicate' (verb) + '-fication' (Latin suffix meaning 'the act of making'). This formal noun emerged in 19th-century chemistry literature.
Ancient Chinese potters stumbled onto desilicification accidentally when firing certain clay—removing silicates created stronger, more lustrous ceramics. Science, but discovered through art thousands of years before we named it.
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