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  2. Silicon dioxide - Wikipedia

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    Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO 2, commonly found in nature as quartz. [5] [6] In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica is one of the most complex and abundant families of materials, existing as a compound of several minerals and as a

  3. Silica fume - Wikipedia

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    Silica fume, also known as microsilica, (CAS number 69012-64-2, EINECS number 273-761-1) is an amorphous (non-crystalline) polymorph of silicon dioxide, silica. It is ...

  4. Silica gel - Wikipedia

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    Colloidal silica gel with light opalescence. Silica gel is an amorphous and porous form of silicon dioxide (silica), consisting of an irregular tridimensional framework of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with nanometer-scale voids and pores. The voids may contain water or some other liquids, or may be filled by gas or vacuum.

  5. Combustibility and flammability - Wikipedia

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    The original mass of flammable material and the mass of the oxygen consumed (typically from the surrounding air) equals the mass of the flame products (ash, water, carbon dioxide, and other gases). Lavoisier used the experimental fact that some metals gained mass when they burned to support his ideas (because those chemical reactions capture ...

  6. Fumed silica - Wikipedia

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    Fumed silica (CAS number 7631-86-9, also 112945-52-5), also known as pyrogenic silica because it is produced in a flame, consists of microscopic droplets of amorphous silica fused into branched, chainlike, three-dimensional secondary particles which then agglomerate into tertiary particles. The resulting powder has an extremely low bulk density ...

  7. Aerogel - Wikipedia

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    The lowest-density silica nanofoam weighs 1,000 g/m 3, [59] which is the evacuated version of the record-aerogel of 1,900 g/m 3. [60] The density of air is 1,200 g/m 3 (at 20 °C and 1 atm). [61] The silica solidifies into three-dimensional, intertwined clusters that make up only 3% of the volume. Conduction through the solid is therefore very low.

  8. Oxidizing agent - Wikipedia

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    The international pictogram for oxidizing chemicals. Dangerous goods label for oxidizing agents. An oxidizing agent (also known as an oxidant, oxidizer, electron recipient, or electron acceptor) is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or "accepts"/"receives" an electron from a reducing agent (called the reductant, reducer, or electron donor).

  9. Silicone - Wikipedia

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    When silicone is burned in air or oxygen, it forms solid silica (silicon dioxide, SiO 2) as a white powder, char, and various gases. The readily dispersed powder is sometimes called silica fume . The pyrolysis of certain polysiloxanes under an inert atmosphere is a valuable pathway towards the production of amorphous silicon oxycarbide ceramics ...