Silicon Dioxide Definition

Silicon Dioxide Sentence Examples

• The term allotropy has also been applied to inorganic compounds, identical in composition, but assuming different crystallographic forms. Mercuric oxide, sulphide and iodide; arsenic trioxide; titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide may be cited as examples.

• Chemically pure sand is silicon dioxide (SiO 2) or quartz, a clear transparent glass-like mineral, but as ordinarily met with, it is more or less impure and generally coloured reddish or yellowish by oxide of iron.

• This is also an example of the acidic silicon dioxide reacting with a base.

• If you add water to silicon tetrachloride, there is a violent reaction to produce silicon dioxide and fumes of hydrogen chloride.

• Cement contains up to 5% silica in the form of free silicon dioxide which causes lung scarring known as silicosis.