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Why are fused quartz transparent and opaque?

Why are fused quartz transparent and opaque?

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Quartz glass is a kind of special glass containing only single silica component. Because of the type of technology, raw materials, quartz glass, glass, often called foreign silicate quartz glass, fused silica, fused quartz, synthetic fused silica, and no clear concept of transparent, translucent, opaque quartz.
People accustomed to using "quartz" such a simple words to name this material, it is absolutely wrong, because "quartz" is a generic term silica crystalline, and glassy silica in physical and chemical properties are different.
China referred to as quartz glass, press process, use and appearance to the classification, such as transparent fused quartz glass, fused quartz glass, quartz glass, synthetic gas semltime quartz glass, opaque quartz glass, quartz glass, quartz glass, semiconductor electric light source with quartz glass.

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