silica glass

American  

noun

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

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silica glass British  

noun

1. another name for quartz glass

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Example Sentences

To develop their defect-free fibres, the NTU-led team selected pairs of common semiconductor material and synthetic material -- a silicon semiconductor core with a silica glass tube and a germanium core with an aluminosilicate glass tube.

From Science Daily

The scientists used a very thin layer of silica glass, only about 5 nm or few hundred atoms thick, to coat the DNA frames, leaving inner spaces open and ensuring that the resulting material is ultra-light.

From Science Daily

Limin Tong, a physicist at Zhejiang University in China, and his colleagues said they were inspired to study ice after working with a type of silica glass.

From New York Times

“What you get in the end is high purity silica glass” in any shape you want, Kotz says.

From Science Magazine

They devised a complex and elegant set-up to measure very low values of loss in rods of fused silica glass about the length of a ruler.

From Nature