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VITREOUS SILICA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vitreous silica mean?
• VITREOUS SILICA (noun)
The noun VITREOUS SILICA has 1 sense:
1. colorless glass made of almost pure silica
Familiarity information: VITREOUS SILICA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Colorless glass made of almost pure silica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
crystal; lechatelierite; quartz; quartz glass; vitreous silica
Hypernyms ("vitreous silica" is a kind of...):
natural glass (magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly)
Meronyms (substance of "vitreous silica"):
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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