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silicon dioxide

n.
Silica.
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Noun1.silicon dioxide - a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2)silicon dioxide - 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
cristobalite - a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks
quartz - a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities
chert - variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz
flint - a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
lechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica, crystal - colorless glass made of almost pure silica
oxide - any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical
silex - a pure form of finely ground silica
tridymite - a mineral form of silica
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Global Silicon Dioxide Market: Information by Form (Amorphous, Quartz, Keatite, Cristobalite, Coesite, Tridymite), Purity (2N (99%), 2N5 (99.5%), 3N (99.9%), 3N5 (99.95%), 4N (99.99%), 5N (99.999%) and Less Than 99% Purity), Application (Building Materials, Glass & Ceramics, Paints & Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants, Food & Pharmaceutical Additives, Silicon Wafers), End-Use Industry (Building & Construction, Electricals & Electronics, Healthcare, Food & Beverages, Chemical) and Region - Forecast till 2023
"Our work demonstrates that silicon dioxide with an antireflective structure can be directly fabricated from cicada wings through a simple and inexpensive sol-gel assisted ultrasonic method," coauthor Wang Zhang at Shanghai Jiao Tong University told Phys.org.
Silicon dioxide is a synthetic amorphous polymer with silanol groups on the surface allowing metal adsorption [14, 15].
A quantum-based modeling technique was used to develop atomistic simulations of protein adsorption at the interfaces between oxides (silicon dioxide (Si[O.sub.2]) and titanium dioxide (Ti[O.sub.2])) and water as well as the mechanical and chemo-mechanical properties of glassy thin-layer interfaces involved in crack propagation.
Among the types of food anti-caking agents-calcium compounds, sodium compounds, silicon dioxide, magnesium compounds, microcrystalline cellulose, and others (including aluminum silicate and potassium ferrocyanide)-calcium compounds accounted for the largest market share in 2014, followed by silicon dioxide and sodium compounds.
Scientists at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science solved this problem by developing a way to push alumina into the silicon dioxide using gases.
One study, published in April in the journal Small, examined the effects of silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide on cells taken from the human intestinal lining.
An ultra-thin layer of silicon dioxide inert barrier technology takes advantage of the excellent properties of the chemical compound silicon oxide.
Silicon dioxide and silicon nitride coating act as anti reflector and these coatings reduce reflectance toward bare silicon.
He picked up some sand, took a close look at it and saw it was made up primarily of quartz, or silicon dioxide, he said.
Silicon dioxide is used as a substrate, with a film of nickel on top.