{"id":2092,"date":"2024-03-05T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T08:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2024-03-05T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T08:51:38","slug":"silica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/silica\/","title":{"rendered":"silica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Silica<\/strong>,\u00a0compound\u00a0of the two most abundant\u00a0elements\u00a0in\u00a0Earth\u2019s crust,\u00a0silicon\u00a0and\u00a0oxygen, SiO<sub>2<\/sub>. The mass of Earth\u2019s crust is 59 percent silica, the main\u00a0constituent\u00a0of more than 95 percent of the known rocks. Silica has three main crystalline varieties:\u00a0quartz\u00a0(by far the most abundant),\u00a0tridymite, and\u00a0cristobalite. Other varieties include\u00a0coesite, keatite, and\u00a0lechatelierite. Silica\u00a0sand\u00a0is used in buildings and roads in the form of\u00a0portland cement,\u00a0concrete, and\u00a0mortar, as well as\u00a0sandstone. Silica also is used in grinding and polishing\u00a0glass\u00a0and stone; in foundry molds; in the manufacture of glass,\u00a0ceramics,\u00a0silicon carbide, ferrosilicon, and\u00a0silicones; as a refractory material; and as\u00a0gemstones.\u00a0Silica gel\u00a0is often used as a desiccant to remove moisture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silica,\u00a0compound\u00a0of the two most abundant\u00a0elements\u00a0in\u00a0Earth\u2019s crust,\u00a0silicon\u00a0and\u00a0oxygen, SiO2. The mass of Earth\u2019s crust is 59 percent silica, the main\u00a0constituent\u00a0of more than 95 percent of the known rocks. Silica has three main crystalline varieties:\u00a0quartz\u00a0(by far the most abundant),\u00a0tridymite, and\u00a0cristobalite. Other varieties include\u00a0coesite, keatite, and\u00a0lechatelierite. Silica\u00a0sand\u00a0is used in buildings and roads in the form of\u00a0portland cement,\u00a0concrete, and\u00a0mortar, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inorganic-compounds"],"Cooking_time":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}