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QUARTZ GLASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Colorless glass made of almost pure silica
Synonyms:
crystal; lechatelierite; quartz; quartz glass; vitreous silica
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("quartz glass" is a kind of...):
natural glass (magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly)
Meronyms (substance of "quartz glass"):
silica; 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)
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