silicon oxide vs oxide

silicon oxide and oxide both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
silicon oxide	Yes	No	No	No
oxide	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, oxide is a hypernym of silicon oxide; that is, oxide is a word with a broader meaning than silicon oxide:

silicon oxide: a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
oxide: any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical

silicon oxide (noun)	oxide (noun)
a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite	any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical