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silicon dioxide
noun
A hard glassy mineral, SiO₂, occurring as quartz, sand, opal etc. Informally known as silica.
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The region labeled anhydrous melt consists of silicon dioxide liquid.
Sapphire crystals are made from aluminium oxide powder, compared to silicon dioxide in standard glass.
It consists of four layers of silicon dioxide interspersed with three of hafnium dioxide.
More recently, silica (silicon dioxide, which comes from sand) has come to the forefront.
All phases in Figure 1 have the same composition that of silicon dioxide, SiO2.
This process is often used to form a thin (0.0001-mm) insulating layer of silicon dioxide.
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It is believed that the variation of contact angle with surface charge is caused by the change of the intensions of water-silicon dioxide and oil-silicon dioxide, because the surface charge affects the interactions between water-silicon dioxide and the interactions between oil-silicon dioxide.
e.g. Sodium Hydroxide, Silicon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide, Hydrochloric Acid, and even Water!
poly vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene)/poly methylmethacrylate)/silicon dioxide.
Until now, that has been done using silicon dioxide in other words, quartz.
The waveguide is composed of silicon dioxide/metal multiple layers.
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