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Silica
Silica 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.
Meaning of Silica from wikipedia
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known as
silica, is an
oxide of
silicon with the
chemical formula SiO2,
commonly found in
nature as quartz. In many
parts of the world,
silica is the major...
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Silica gel is an
amorphous and
porous form of
silicon dioxide (
silica),
consisting of an
irregular tridimensional framework of
alternating silicon and...
- Look up
silica or
sílica in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Silica or
silicon dioxide is a
chemical compound.
Silica may also
refer to:
Silica gel, a...
- main
classes of
amorphous silica are
pyrogenic silica, precipitated
silica and
silica gel.
Among them,
precipitated silica has the
greatest commercial...
- conductivity.
Aerogels can be made from a
variety of
chemical compounds.
Silica aerogels feel like
fragile styrofoam to the touch,
while some polymer-based...
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Fumed silica (CAS
number 112945-52-5), also
known as
pyrogenic silica because it is
produced in a flame,
consists of
microscopic droplets of amorphous...
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Hydrated silica is a form of
silicon dioxide,
which has a
variable amount of
water in the formula. When
dissolved in water, it is
usually known as silicic...
- Two-dimensional
silica (2D
silica) is a
layered polymorph of
silicon dioxide. Two
varieties of 2D
silica, both of
hexagonal crystal symmetry, have been...
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Hydrophobic silica is a form of
silicon dioxide (commonly
known as
silica) that has
hydrophobic groups chemically bonded to the surface. The hydrophobic...
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Colloidal silicas are
suspensions of fine amorphous, nonporous, and
typically spherical silica particles in a
liquid phase. It may be
produced by Stöber...