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    Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO2, commonly found in nature as quartz. In many parts of the...
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  • Metal silicides, silicon halides, and similar inorganic compounds can be prepared by directly reacting elemental silicon or silicon dioxide with stable metals...
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    various forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates. More than 90% of the Earth's crust is composed of silicate minerals, making silicon the second most...
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    evaporation, often at the expense of uniformity. Silicon dioxide can be deposited using a combination of silicon precursor gasses like dichlorosilane or silane...
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  • material with a small relative dielectric constant (κ, kappa) relative to silicon dioxide. Low-κ dielectric material implementation is one of several strategies...
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    hydrogen cyanide and ammonia, increases with increasing pressure. Silicon dioxide, also known as silica and quartz, is very abundant in the universe...
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    polycrystalline, amorphous, and epitaxial. These materials include: silicon (dioxide, carbide, nitride, oxynitride), carbon (fiber, nanofibers, nanotubes...
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  • Elephant's Foot is a solidified corium glass composed primarily of silicon dioxide, with traces of dissolved uranium, titanium, zirconium, magnesium and...
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    MOSFET (redirect from Metal-oxide-silicon)
    layer of silicon dioxide over the silicon wafer. Further research showed that silicon dioxide could prevent dopants from diffusing into the silicon wafer...
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  • for flocculating, coagulating, dispersing, stabilising etc. Liquid silicon dioxide (colloidal silica) is used as a wine and juice fining agent. Absorbent...
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    implications of nanotechnology-enabled diesel fuel additives. Titanium dioxide: Nano titanium dioxide is currently used in many products. Depending on the type of...
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  • to silicon dioxide. High-κ dielectrics are used in semiconductor manufacturing processes where they are usually used to replace a silicon dioxide gate...
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    Silicon carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum (/ˌkɑːrbəˈrʌndəm/), is a hard chemical compound containing silicon and carbon. A semiconductor, it occurs...
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  • differ from conventional silicon-built devices in that the silicon junction is above an electrical insulator, typically silicon dioxide or sapphire (these types...
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  • 3 H2O → 2 NaAl(OH)4 Silicon dioxide is an acidic oxide. It will react with strong bases to form silicate salts. Silicon dioxide is the anhydride of silicic...
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  • Dry water (category Silicon dioxide)
    use in other fields. Dry water can be made by blending a mixture of silicon dioxide dust with water. Certain gases, when mixed with dry water, combine...
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  • Silicon oxide may refer to either of the following: Silicon dioxide or quartz, SiO2, very well characterized Silicon monoxide, SiO, not very well characterized...
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    environment, but would include layers suspended or transferred to silicon dioxide or silicon carbide. In 1859, Benjamin Brodie noted the highly lamellar structure...
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    Hydrated silica is a form of silicon dioxide, which has a variable amount of water in the formula. When dissolved in water, it is usually known as silicic...
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    Silica gel (category Silicon dioxide)
    amorphous and porous form of silicon dioxide (silica), consisting of an irregular tridimensional framework of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with nanometer-scale...
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    chemical structure (based on the chemical structure of quartz) is SiO2 (silicon dioxide). Chalcedony has a waxy luster, and may be semitransparent or translucent...
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    South Africa and Western Australia. Tiger's eye is composed chiefly of silicon dioxide (SiO 2) and is coloured mainly by iron oxide. The specific gravity...
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    Potassium silicate (category Inorganic silicon compounds)
    PMID 15981734. S2CID 208153862. Mori, H. (2003-08-01). "Extraction of silicon dioxide from waste colored glasses by alkali fusion using potassium hydroxide"...
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    as a crosslinking agent in silicone polymers and as a precursor to silicon dioxide in the semiconductor industry. TEOS is also used as the silica source...
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  • therefore preferred for rugged military usage. A mixture of silicon dioxide and germanium dioxide ("silica-germania") is used as an optical material for optical...
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    Simeticone (category Silicon dioxide)
    several in vitro studies. Simeticone is a mixture of dimethicone and silicon dioxide. The INN name is "simeticone", which was added to the INN recommended...
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    buffered hydrofluoric acid (BHF) is used commonly to etch silicon dioxide over a silicon substrate. Different specialized etchants can be used to characterize...
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    by the chlorination of various silicon compounds such as ferrosilicon, silicon carbide, or mixtures of silicon dioxide and carbon. The ferrosilicon route...
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    reported in nanoscale thin films of silicon dioxide as early as the 1960s . However, hysteretic conductance in silicon was associated to memristive effects...
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    carbon dioxide could exist in a glass state similar to other members of its elemental family, like silicon dioxide (silica glass) and germanium dioxide. Unlike...
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