How to Use silica in a Sentence

silica

noun

• When rice husks are burned, the ash is rich in high-grade silica.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2021
• Made of extremely fine, silica-rich quartz, the squeaky-soft sand is some of the smoothest and whitest in the world.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2021
• The water is blue due to the way the silica reflects sunlight.
  — Liz Dufour, USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
• Those who hope to search these silica deposits for signs of life on Mars might not have to wait long.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2017
• That means anything that was made from that silica is banned.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• Plus, the silica mud masks and mineral salts are great for your skin.
  — Condé Nast Traveller, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
• Most of us see skyscrapers but don’t see the silica mines that created the glass.
  — Edward Burtynsky, National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2020
• Even so, spending a lot of time up close with silica can lead to health problems.
  — Bridget Reed Morawski, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
• The robot started with a layer of silica, the main component of sand, and used the ion beam to shape the walls and cut out the windows and door.
  — Denise Chow /, NBC News, 30 May 2018
• Step two is the silica face and body mask — this white mineral mask will cleanse and strengthen your skin.
  — Hannah Streck, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2021
• Like the glass in soda bottles, the glass in your vase consists mostly of white silica sand.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• The idea is to cut down on the weight that rigid metal or silica-ceramic shields require.
  — Paul Brinkmann, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Further, the city will take samples from the crushing devices to look for silica as well.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
• The entire El Corazon Park is being built on land that for more than 60 years was an open-pit silica mine.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
• In the case of meat rocks, the stones contain varying degrees of quartz and silica; high-iron content in some brings out a reddish hue.
  — Te-Ping Chen, WSJ, 13 May 2018
• Choose those with added starch and/or silica, which leave a matte finish and help absorb oil and fight shine throughout the day.
  — Beth Janes, Good Housekeeping, 7 Feb. 2020
• Yee found that the same proton pump also helps diatoms make their tough silica shell.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2023
• The nano silica doesn’t add a protective layer or replace a loss of oil.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• That comes from the high silica content in the water, which give it a particular mouth feel.
  — Gina Pace, Town & Country, 1 June 2016
• The foundation of the ridge ecosystem is a dense mat made of spicules, tiny structures of silica that sponges use to construct their bodies.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• Unlike the sarsens, which are made of local silica-rich stone, the bluestones are entirely alien to the landscape.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2022
• Craftsmen fill large handmade clay pots with one and a half tons of silica and boron oxide powders.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2018
• With tons of basalt rock around, the chemistry of the water would have reflected that rock—high in iron, magnesium, and silica.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• Think of this chalky white powder (made from fossilized plankton) as a big silica packet for a room.
  — Brie Dyas, Country Living, 12 June 2020
• With a combination of silica dust and coal dust, miners can pick up black lung much faster than with coal dust alone.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2018
• Remarkably, some samples showed the 1,260 feature – samples that had a thin crust of NaCl on top of the silica.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2016
• Back at the lab, El Albani and his team analyzed the glassy samples, made up of silica, albite, and iron chlorite.
  — science.org, 3 July 2024
• The result is a layer of pure silica, otherwise known as glass.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 26 June 2020
• The method allowed scientists to release a mock asteroid the size of a tenth of a gram and made of silica, into the free space vacuum.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
• Kazansky and his team transcribed the human genome using ultra-fast lasers that encoded the data into tiny voids in silica as small as 20 nanometers.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024