silica glass

noun

glass made entirely from silica, having a very low rate of thermal expansion.

Also called fused silica.

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Previous traps were made using silicon chipmaking processes, but the company has now switched to an evaporated glass trap technology—a way of constructing micrometer-scale features in fused silica glass often used to make microfluidic chips.
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British Dictionary definitions for silica glass

silica glass

noun

another name for quartz glass

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