Silicon Dioxide Properties
Properties of SiliconDioxide
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- Created on: 31-10-12 11:43
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- Silicon Dixode
- Insoluble in water
- Doesn't conduct electricity
- High melting and boiling point
- Hard
- A giant covalent structure
- Found as quartz in granite
- Sand on beach is made mostly of silicon dioxide
- Rocks in litosphere are made up of silicates
- Compounds contain silicon and oxygen. atoms
- Formula = SiO2
- Each silicon atom is covalently bonded to 4 oxygen atoms
- So each oxygen atom is covalently bonded to 2 solicon atom
- Majour compound in Sandstone
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