About The Word Silica
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Silica
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What's The Definition Of Silica?
[n] a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechartelierite
Synonyms | Synonyms for Silica: silicon dioxide | silicon oxide Related Terms | Find terms related to Silica: See Also | chert | cristobalite | flint | lechartelierite | oxide | quartz | silex | tridymite Silica In Webster's Dictionary \Sil"i*ca\, n. [NL., from L. silex, silics, a flint.]
(Chem.)
Silicon dioxide, SiO?. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also
opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very
fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.
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