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fused quartz
(redirected from Fumed silica)

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fused quartz [′fyüzd ′kwȯrts]
(materials)
A glasslike insulating material made by melting crushed crystals of natural quartz or a certain type of quartz sand.


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Fumed silica will experience the fastest advances, spurred by growth in the electronics market, which primarily utilizes fumed silica in slurries.
Early in my career I learned the hard way that, although a super-dispersed master batch of fumed silica was very easy to stir into the paint and gave unusually good gloss, it was a failure because it had little ability to prevent sag.
This study compared coatings of non-porous fumed silica, aluminum oxide, and precipitated silica in ink-jet media.
 
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