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Glass Sand

Formula: SiO₂

Used in glass containers, flat glass, fiber glass insulation, textile fiber glass and a variety of other specialty glass products.

Out Bound Links

• (Materials - Parent) Quartz - SiO2
• (Typecodes) 1: GNM - Generic Material
• (Typecodes) 1: SIL - Silica/Quartz
• (URLs - Related Information) Quartz on WikiPedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz
• (URLs - Related Information) Quartz MSDS at ilo.org
  http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safew...
• (MDT - Member) Glass Industry

  The materials included in this MDT were selected i...

• (MDT - Member) Enamel Industry

  We are working on this database and would apprecia...

• (URLs - Technical inforamtion) US Silica glass sand page
  http://www.u-s-silica.com/glasssand.htm
• (URLs) Example of a glass sand MSDS
  http://www.u-s-silica.com/msds.htm

In Bound Links

• (Materials - Parent) Edgar Glass Sand
• (Materials - Different physical form) Silica - SiO2 - Quartz, Flint
• (Materials - Related) Crystalline Silica - SiO2

  Quartz

• (Oxides - Material source) SiO2 - Silicon Dioxide, Silica

XML for Import into INSIGHT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<material name="Glass Sand" descrip="" searchkey="Silicon dioxide, silica, quartz" loi="0.00" casnumber="15468-32-3">
<oxides>
<oxide symbol="SiO2" name="Silicon Dioxide, Silica" status="" percent="100.000" tolerance=""/>
</oxides>
</material>

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