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Does sand contain iron

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No sand is the polymetric form of silcon dioxide (SiO2). There are also theories that for every milloin silicon atoms or so maybe more i'm not 100% of the exact ratio, the silicon atom is replaced with a Xenon atom, which explains the unusually low concentration of xenon in the atmosphere

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