vitreous silica
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vitreous silica
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(Elements & Compounds) another name for quartz glass
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Noun | 1. | vitreous silica - colorless glass made of almost pure silica natural glass - magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly silica, silicon dioxide, 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 |
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