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Silica

Silicon dioxide, SiO/. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.

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Chert 76% connected

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

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Flint 76% connected

A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge…

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Silex 76% connected

Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

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Oxide 76% connected

A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide, nitrogen oxide, etc.

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Siliceous 74% connected

Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.

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Siliceous 74% connected

Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.

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Crystal 70% connected

The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces…

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Quartz 70% connected

A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow…

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Tridymite 70% connected

Pure silica, like quartz, but crystallizing in hexagonal tables. It is found in trachyte and similar rocks.

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Adamant noun · 86% connection

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

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Arsenic noun · 86% connection

a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer

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Black lead noun · 86% connection

used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors

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Bottled gas noun · 86% connection

hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure

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Calx noun · 86% connection

a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

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Carbon noun · 86% connection

an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in…

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Char noun · 86% connection

a charred substance

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Charcoal noun · 86% connection

a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air

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Crock noun · 86% connection

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

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Diamond noun · 86% connection

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

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Dioxide noun · 86% connection

an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in the molecule

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Formaldehyde noun · 86% connection

a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol

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Graphite noun · 86% connection

used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors

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Lampblack noun · 86% connection

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

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Lime noun · 86% connection

a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

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Liquefied petroleum gas noun · 86% connection

hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure

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Methanal noun · 86% connection

a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol

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Minium noun · 86% connection

a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics

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Amorphism noun · 78% connection

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

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Antozone noun · 78% connection

A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antag…

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Cacholong noun · 78% connection

An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

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Calomel noun · 78% connection

Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mer…

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Cellulose noun · 78% connection

The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also f…

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Chloropal noun · 78% connection

A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.

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Crush verb · 78% connection

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

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Fiorite noun · 78% connection

A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly lus…

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Fluorine noun · 78% connection

A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of…

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Geyserite noun · 78% connection

A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and gey…

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Girasole Girasol noun · 78% connection

A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.

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