vitreous silica

vitreous silica

n (Elements & Compounds) another name for quartz glass

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vitreous silica - colorless glass made of almost pure silicalechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, crystalnatural glass - magma of any composition that cooled very rapidlysilica, silicon dioxide, silicon oxide - a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite