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silica glass [′sil·ə·kə ¦glas] (materials) A translucent or transparent vitreous material consisting almost entirely of silica. Also known as fused silica; vitreous silica. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Fusing submicrometer silica glass particles onto the individual whiskers has the benefits of (1) facilitation of silanization regardless of the whisker composition (e. Hirose and his colleagues took a mixture of quartz crystals and silica glass and compressed it between two small diamonds to pressures approaching 3 million times the pressure exerted by the atmosphere at sea level. To check whether radiation can indeed trigger the nucleation of the B phase within the A phase of superfluid helium-3, the Stanford group used a specially designed, long, thin, silica glass tube with microscopically smooth surfaces. |
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