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Definition of Silicon oxide

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Silicon oxide

1. Noun. (inorganic compound) Silicon dioxide, silica. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Silicon Oxide

Literary usage of Silicon oxide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1906)
"(ОН)2, on being fused yields diphenyl silicon oxide, (CoH--. ... O—Si—О (C«H5)2 Diphenyl silicon oxide is the first substance (as far as the author knows) ..."

2. Technic and scope of cast gold and porcelain inlays with a chapter on by Herman E. S. Chayes (1918)
"Kaolin or silicon of aluminum, consists of an aluminum oxide, silicon oxide and water, sometimes spoken of as disintegrated feldspar. ..."

3. A Text-book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade (1918)
"Thus there are many different . silicates because, in the earth, many different metallic oxides have combined with silicon oxide. Also in many cases two or ..."

4. Geological Studies: Or, Elements of Geology by Alexander Winchell (1886)
"Thus iron and oxygen form iron oxide, or oxide of iron. Silicon and oxygen form silicon oxide ; aluminum and oxygen, aluminum oxide. ..."

5. Elementary Chemistry by Robert Hart Bradbury (1903)
"This smoke is silicon oxide, Si02; the burning of the gas is described by ... silicon oxide, SiO,—also called silica—results when silicon is burned in the ..."

6. Non-technical Chats on Iron and Steel: An Their Application to Modern Industry by La Verne Ward Spring (1917)
"That which remains after burning is silicon oxide, which is a perfectly white, ... (Ordinary sand is silicon oxide usually slightly colored with iron. ..."

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