How to Use silicon dioxide in a Sentence

silicon dioxide

noun
  • Research claims silicon dioxide can improve bone, skin, hair, and nail health.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
  • What's left is a silicon dioxide cantilever with a thin metal layer on top.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2019
  • That hot side has an atmosphere made of silicon dioxide, more commonly known as quartz.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • This resin sits on top of a layer of silicon nitride on top of a layer of silicon dioxide.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 June 2026
  • In the case of flat glass, which makes up windows, that mixture may include sand (silicon dioxide), lime, and soda.
    — Doug Main, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Glass, meanwhile, is formed of the compound silica, also known as silicon dioxide.
    — David Lumb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The majority of all glass is silicon dioxide—one part silicon, two parts oxygen.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 12 June 2020
  • The optical fibers that wire our world are predominantly made from silicon dioxide, which also makes up beach sand.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • To make the device, the researchers started with layers of silicon and silicon dioxide.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The process generally begins with quartz’s cousin, quartzite, which consists in large measure of silicon dioxide.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In the case of a silicon wafer, this sacrificial layer is silicon dioxide.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2015
  • Quartz—or more technically, silicon dioxide or silica—is the main component of sand.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
  • When the researchers apply a gate voltage from under the silicon dioxide, electrons are drawn to the surfaces of the materials.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The silicon dioxide deriving from the volcanic ash covering the carcass.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The result is a pattern of silicon nitride pillars sitting on top of the silicon dioxide substrate — a metalens.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The type of silica used to make cell phone chips is an ultra-refined and inherently delicate form of silicon dioxide particles.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2022
  • This is due to a rubber diaphragm in the fuel tank that's deteriorating with age, depositing silicon dioxide in the tubing.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Quartz sand, made up of silicon dioxide, is the most common sand found on beaches, except at tropical coasts where coral sand beaches, made up of calcium carbonate, are found.
    — Stephen P. Leatherman, The Conversation, 9 July 2024
  • Quartz sand, made up of silicon dioxide, is the most common sand found on beaches, except for tropical coasts where coral sand beaches, made up of calcium carbonate, are found.
    — Stephen P. Leatherman, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, silica sand — a type of sand high in silicon dioxide — is used for golf course bunkers, computer chips, glass, screens in electronic devices and even solar panels.
    — Carla Delgado, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In one device, the silicon dioxide layer was 43 nanometers (nm) thick and the tantalum oxide layer was 41 nm thick.
    — Xiaozhi Lim, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Oct. 2019
  • In experiments, players worked on a lab simulator where they were asked to etch a memory hole, which is a trench in a silicon dioxide film that is used to create a memory cell.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • These insulating layers are often made of materials such as silicon dioxide and this has to be sputtered onto the surface using an electric field.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2021
  • This product has a notably clean flavor and was the only one devoid of silicon dioxide or other anticaking chemicals designed to keep the salts free-flowing.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2021
  • Over time, engineers discovered that a fuel tube inside the thrusters can become clogged with silicon dioxide, a byproduct of the fuel tank’s rubber diaphragm aging.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Chalkboard paints typically contain talc, titanium dioxide, and silicon dioxide, making for a surface that will hold chalk.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 29 Apr. 2019
  • For now, the researchers built a simpler resonator containing a 90-layer stack made of silicon dioxide and tantalum pentoxide.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2016
  • Almost half of it is silicon dioxide glass created by meteoroids hitting the moon, heating up and fusing the silicon topsoil into glass, then breaking it into tiny shards.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The other striking thing about these deposits is that they're generally associated with the mineral quartz, a crystalline form of silicon dioxide.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024

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