vitreous silica


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vitreous silica

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(Elements & Compounds) another name for quartz glass
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Noun1.vitreous silica - colorless glass made of almost pure silicavitreous silica - colorless glass made of almost pure silica
lechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, crystal
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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