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silicon dioxide

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  • noun Silica.

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  • noun chemistry A hard glassy mineral, SiO₂, occurring as quartz, sand, opal etc. Informally known as silica.

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  • noun 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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  • Aka sand. An anti-caking agent in some foods.

    January 21, 2013

  • Presumably not in cake.

    January 21, 2013