Is the ordinary glass component silica or silicate?
A relatively transparent solid substance that forms a continuous network structure during melting; a silicate like nonmetallic material with increasing viscosity and hardening without crystallization during cooling. Widely used in buildings for wind and light transmission; of mixtures. Silicates can be written in the form of oxides, such as Al2O3 ? SiO2.Ordinary glass according to high school teaching materials, you can think that the main ingredient is SiO2.(Note: if it is deeper, it can be considered as Na2O CaO 6SiO2, of course, in fact, glass is a mixture and has many other ingredients. (quartz glass is generally believed to be the main component of SiO2)
Silicate glass is sodium silicate and calcium silicate, and silica is the component of quartz glass
Because silicate is easy to form complex salts, so its real component is not so simple, so simply for convenience, written in the form of oxides, Na2O.CaO.6SiO2.Only quartz glass is considered the main ingredient is SiO2.
Plain glass is a mixture. Simply, it's a mixture of Na2SiO3, CaSiO3 and SiO2
