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Silica  n.  (Chem.) Silicon dioxide, SiO2. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.





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"Silica" Quotes from Famous Books



... hard to find any one less informed about such phenomena than myself; but of course I had heard of mineral springs so saturated with silica that the leaves and twigs which fell into them were turned to stone after a time. I dimly comprehended the process, how the silica replaced the vegetable matter, atom by atom, and the result was a duplicate of the object in stone. This, I confess, had never ...
— The King In Yellow • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Silica" :   silicious, oxide, quartz glass, silica gel, quartz, silicon oxide, vitreous silica, lechatelierite, cristobalite


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