fused quartz
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fused quartz (countable and uncountable, plural fused quartzes)
(chemical engineering) A type of glass consisting of almost pure silica in amorphous (noncrystalline) form.
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Refractive index variation for SF-11 flint glass (upper graph), BK-7 borosilicate glass (middle curve), and fused quartz (dashed curve).
Invar and fused quartz Around 1900 low thermal expansion materials were developed which, when used as pendulum rods, made elaborate temperature compensation unnecessary.
This data file is converted to a series of polygons and written onto a square fused quartz substrate covered with a layer of chromium using a photolithographic process.
This sphere was a fused quartz gyroscope for the Gravity Probe B experiment, and differs in shape from a perfect sphere by no more than 40 atoms (less than 10 nanometers ) of thickness.