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silica

si luh kuh

  • 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 .
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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.

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