LECHATELIERITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lechatelierite mean? 

• LECHATELIERITE (noun)
  The noun LECHATELIERITE has 1 sense:

1. colorless glass made of almost pure silica

  Familiarity information: LECHATELIERITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LECHATELIERITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Colorless glass made of almost pure silica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

crystal; lechatelierite; quartz; quartz glass; vitreous silica

Hypernyms ("lechatelierite" is a kind of...):

natural glass (magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly)

Meronyms (substance of "lechatelierite"):

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)