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Noun: silicon oxide
  1. A white or colourless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
    - silica, silicon dioxide

Derived forms: silicon oxides

Type of: oxide

Part of: cristobalite, crystal, lechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, quartz sand, tridymite, vitreous silica

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