n 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
The silica particles erode the delicate lining of the lungs, make them vulnerable to the germs of pneumonia and tuberculosis.
The nub of the matter is a substance called silica gel.
While the mechanical Zou Ren Ti (named after the inventor, of course) can move its face and speak, its most impressive feature is its skin, which is made of silica gel and looks so .
Molex Subsidiary Polymicro Showcases Specialty Optical Fibers at CLEO 2013 Polymicro Technologies, a subsidiary of Molex Incorporated, will exhibit FBPI optical fiber and hollow silica fiber products at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics , sponsored by the American Physical Society/Division of Laser Science, IEEE Photonics Society and the Optical Society.
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Hi-Crush Partners LP Completes Acquisition of D&I Silica, LLC Press Release Hi-Crush Partners LP Completes Acquisition of D&I Silica, LLC Houston, Texas - June 11, 2013 - Hi-Crush Partners LP (NYSE: HCLP), or Hi-Crush, today announced the successful completion of ...
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Steve Squyres in Wired News Whichever of those conditions produced it, this concentration of silica is probably the most significant discovery by Spirit for revealing a habitable niche that existed on Mars in the past,said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca,...
Frank Stronach in ESPN The fact that we can take a bistable molecule that behaves as a switch in a silicon-based electronic device at the nanoscale level and fabricate it differently to work as part of a nano valve on porous silica is something I find really satisfying... J Fraser Stoddart http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fraser_Stoddart&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEM6hwK6UVFelwfw7nXeC-sfcYq_A UC Los Angeles http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp%3FRelNum%3D6306&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE77dyt1QRgjMO3aOMZTekfT0w41g Jul 15, 2005
90119 119818 silica It's basically got pipes underneath, a liner, and you have a filter and silica sand," Stronach said.