vitreous silica

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   colorless glass made of almost pure silica

   Synonymsquartz glassquartzlechatelieritecrystal

   Broadernatural glass

Questions about vitreous silica

What does vitreous silica mean?

vitreous silica means "colorless glass made of almost pure silica".

What is another word for vitreous silica?

Close synonyms include quartz glass, quartz, lechatelierite, crystal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vitreous silica a common word?

vitreous silica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.