1924 J. G. A. Skerl tr. A. Wegener Orig. Continents & Oceans iv. 59 Molten sialic masses (granite) from the under side of the South American block..have emerged on its posterior edge.

1930 Nature 15 Mar. 426 The outer sialic shell was absent from the part whence the moon was removed.

1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. ii. 14 There should be bulges..where gravity is relatively low; that is to say, wherever the outer part of the crust is composed of light sialic rocks. Such places are the continents.

1955 Sci. Amer. Sept. 62/1 Because granite is the chief sialic rock and basalt the chief simatic one, the continents are most commonly described as granitic and the ocean basins as basaltic.

1970 Sci. Amer. Feb. 32/3 Stresses in the earth's crust may crack the sialic layer, producing faults and fissures that can be as much as 20 meters wide.

1975 Nature 3 Apr. 397/2 Localised partial melting of ancient, sialic crust may..occur in the zone of heating above large bodies of basic igneous magma introduced into high crustal levels.

1952 G. Blix et al. in Acta Chem. Scand. VI. 359 Besides this substance, for which we propose the provisional name sialic acid, the mucin contains small amounts of carbohydrate of the dihexose-hexosamine type.

1957 G. Blix et al. in Nature 25 May 1088/2 Sialic acid is suggested as group name for the acylated neuraminic acids.

1967 New Scientist 16 Feb. 414/1 Twenty years elapsed before the structure of this complex sugar was determined, and by then it was clear that it was only one of a family of sugars called sialic acids, all of which had an unusually long backbone of nine carbon atoms.

1978 Nature 16 Feb. 674/2 Sialic acids..of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane are considered to play an important part in the physiology of the RBC.