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gel
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For example, ethanol can be separated from a liquid mixture of ethanol and water by shaking the mixture with silica gel .
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The silica gel removes the water.
glass
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High-temperature gas cleaning techniques remove the water and metal ions which are a natural constituent of silica glass , and attenuate light.
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Soda silica glasses are not very manageable, however.
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Because the silica in andesite makes it thick and pasty, andesite tends to trap large amounts of gas.
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Indeed as pure silica it is the insulating element in the technology of silicon microchips.
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Quartz is a crystalline form of silica .
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The most commonly used rocks are those composed of silica , quartz, granite, slate, and other similarly stable materials.
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This is not a result of sampling bias on our part, as all known sites of geothermal silica deposits were sampled.
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This model remains today the best For simple glasses, such as silica , and many of the new amorphous semiconductors.