How do you use Silica in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like oxide, plus the exact meaning.
Silica meaning
- Silicon dioxide.
- Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
Synonyms of Silica
Using Silica
- The main meaning on this page is: Silicon dioxide. | Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
- Useful related words include: silicon oxide, silicon dioxide, oxide.
- In the example corpus, silica often appears in combinations such as: of silica, silica and, and silica.
Context around Silica
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Silica
- In this selection, "silica" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rhodium, sio, future, dust, wool and proposal stand out and add context to how "silica" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 10 rhodium silica wool copper and alumina and silica which have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "silica" sits close to words such as additives, alfie and appreciating, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with silica
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Faujasite silica is another form of crystalline silica. (8 words)
If you don't have silica gel beads on hand, you could try other household items. (16 words)
Graetsch, H., "Structural Characteristics of opaline and microcrystalline silica minerals", "Silica, physical behavior, geochemistry and materials applications". (17 words)
The platinum is used as a catalyst for the process in conjunction with either 10% rhodium, silica wool, copper, or nickel; the doesn't have any rhodium or nickel yet, nor have they converted any silica into wool, but they should have plenty of copper. (45 words)
SSI produces white sand, screening and washing of silica in a state-of-the-art sand washing facility that obtains sand from part of an extensive silica sand vein that has verifiable reserves in excess of 500 million tons. (39 words)
It’s not the total amount of silica that is key, but rather the “respirable” amount— the actual particles that get into the gas exchange region in the lungs when you breathe silica in, Gorman Ng explains. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The platinum is used as a catalyst for the process in conjunction with either 10% rhodium, silica wool, copper, or nickel; the doesn't have any rhodium or nickel yet, nor have they converted any silica into wool, but they should have plenty of copper.
Premier Wab Kinew, who has accused the former PC government of trying to ram through approval of the Sio Silica proposal following his election victory, has not ruled out consideration of future silica-mining applications.
It’s not the total amount of silica that is key, but rather the “respirable” amount— the actual particles that get into the gas exchange region in the lungs when you breathe silica in, Gorman Ng explains.
SSI produces white sand, screening and washing of silica in a state-of-the-art sand washing facility that obtains sand from part of an extensive silica sand vein that has verifiable reserves in excess of 500 million tons.
Faujasite silica is another form of crystalline silica.
Graetsch, H., "Structural Characteristics of opaline and microcrystalline silica minerals", "Silica, physical behavior, geochemistry and materials applications".
More silica-rich melts are typically more polymerized, with more linkage of silica tetrahedra, and so are more viscous.
The production process, particle characteristics and fields of application of fumed silica are all different from those of silica fume.
They are mixtures of alumina and silica which have not formed the ordered crystal shape of alumino-silica clays which time would provide.
Limonite after pyrite occurs as films on some fractures and as seams and blebs associated with quartz-calcite veins, and opaline silica veins.
Silicosis is caused by breathing in small particles of silica dust, which is created when cutting, drilling, grinding or polishing certain types of stone, rock, sand and clay.
That’s despite holding a more than 90% share of the world’s silica used to polish silicon wafers and counting deep-pocketed heavyweights Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp. as customers.
The first leach pad will be constructed for North Hill and Silica Ridge, and the second leach pad will be constructed in year 3 and will receive mineralized material feed from Southeast Pediment and Abel Knoll.
The organic materials making up cell walls have been replicated with minerals (mostly silica in the form of opal, chalcedony, or quartz).
The proposed rule requires mining companies to sample coal mines for silica dust when and where miners are working.
This happened with asbestos, pesticides, BPA, cigarettes, numerous other chemicals, silica and is still happening with some pharmaceuticals, alcohol, air/water/food pollution.
Chilton Capital Management LLC bought a new position in shares of U.S. Silica in the 1st quarter valued at $73,000.
If you don't have silica gel beads on hand, you could try other household items.
Microsoft and the University of Southampton have explored volumetric archive recording in fused silica using a fast laser.
Scientists have linked the eruption of silicosis cases among stonecutters to the booming popularity of engineered stone, which is typically much higher in lung-scarring silica than natural stone such as granite or marble.
Common combinations with silica
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of silica 23×
- silica and 12×
- and silica 9×
- silica dust 8×
- fused silica 8×
- the silica 8×
- silica or 7×
- silica sand 6×
- with silica 6×
- silica in 5×