silicon oxide

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silicon oxide - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  silicon oxide
      n 1: 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 [syn:
           silica, silicon oxide, silicon dioxide]