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  • with heat, causing the formerly amorphous silicon dioxide to assume its crystalline form. In the United States, the crystalline silica content ...
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  • unique cell walls of silica (hydrated silicon dioxide). Called a frustule ... diatom (spring) blooms to end is a lack of silicon. Unlike other nutrients ...
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  • oxygen, propane burns to form water and carbon dioxide. ... create organic exhausts besides carbon dioxide and water vapor. These bonds ...
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  • a UV-absorbing pigment (such as titanium dioxide or carbon black). Plastic ... copper, stainless steel, titanium, and silicon, when they are exposed to ...
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  • *It reacts with strong acids, releasing carbon dioxide and forming ... *It releases carbon dioxide on heating (to above 825 °C), to form ...
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  • quartz, amethyst is composed mainly of silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2). Its purple color was once attributed to the presence of manganese. That view, ...
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  • and also readily absorbs carbon dioxide from the air, so it should ... with acidic oxides. The reaction of carbon dioxide has already been mentioned ...
    19 KB (2,762 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
  • oxide is reduced at high temperatures with silicon. == Notable characteristics ... (forming magnesium nitride), and carbon dioxide (forming magnesium oxide ...
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  • gases—typically water but also carbon dioxide. Explosively erupted material ... The addition of carbon dioxide is relatively a much less important ...
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  • droplets and water vapor—but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide ... of detectors used. For instance, common silicon detectors are sensitive ...
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  • For example, selenium (or selenium dioxide) is used to impart a red ... acid is finally bubbled with sulfur dioxide to produce red, amorphous ...
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  • Agate is a type of quartz (silica), chiefly chalcedony, characterized by its fine grain and bright colors. Although agates may be found in various ...
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  • a liquid alcohol (like ethanol) with a silicon alkoxide precursor to form ... if introduced with supercritical carbon dioxide. The release rate of the ...
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  • When heated in the presence of air, tin forms the dioxide (SnO2). ... crystal structure, similar to that of silicon and germanium. When warmed ...
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  • generates a thicker layer of titanium dioxide (>1 micrometer (µm) ... to produce on certain alloys such as high-silicon casting grades and 2000 ...
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  • to iron ratio, and a smaller portion of silicon and aluminum than the crust. This behavior is also predicted by experiments that partly melt ...
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  • of isolated, single-layer graphene on silicon dioxide substrates were obtainedMasa ... temperature. However, for graphene on silicon dioxide substrates, scattering ...
    43 KB (6,272 words) - 12:18, 24 January 2023
  • *Opal is a hydrated silicon dioxide. It is often of a Neogenic origin. In fact is not a mineral (it is a mineraloid) and it is generally not ...
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  • reduction of insulating silicon dioxide to silicon.] Nat Mater ... a height of 50-100 nm, are made up of silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide ...
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  • Basalt is a common, gray to black volcanic rock. It is usually fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava on the Earth's surface. It may ...
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