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silica glass

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silica glass
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) another name for quartz glass


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From optical fibres, hair-like strands of silica glass that transmit vast amounts of data around the world as fleeting pulses of light, to lasers built in to our CD and DVD players, much of the developed world's technological infrastructure is already structured on physicists' ability to play with light.
Kao concluded that the high losses of early fibers were due to impurities, not to silica glass itself.
In the semiconductor industry, this machining technique is frequently used to work silicon, silicon carbide, silica glass, and glass-ceramic composites such as Zerodur, holding dimensions with surface finish to 0.
 
 
 
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