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Silica

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Silica Definition

A natural compound of silicon and oxygen found mostly in sand, Silica has three main crystalline varieties: quartz, tridymite, and cristobalite. Fine particulate silica dust from quartz rock causes over a long-term progressive lung injury, silicosis. (NCI04)

Silica Synonyms

Silica, SILICON DIOXIDE

Terms in Silica category

Respirable Crystalline Silica



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