silicon oxide

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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 lechatelieritesilica, silicon dioxidecristobalite - a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocksquartz - a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impuritieschert - variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartzflint - a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedonylechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica, crystal - colorless glass made of almost pure silicaoxide - any compound of oxygen with another element or a radicalsilex - a pure form of finely ground silicatridymite - a mineral form of silica