Silicon carbide is certainly not chemically equivalent to fused silica sand, because the carbide contains no oxygen and the sand contains no carbon.
The chemical compound silica is an oxide of silicon .In other words; silicon is in silica.
Silicon dioxide is silica, SiO2.
Silica is silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Silica is silicon dioxide - SiO2.
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No. In silica, the silicon is already fully oxidized.
No. Silicon is the element. Silica is the compound silicon dioxide.
Silica IS a compound - silicon dioxide. Perhaps you mean silicates? silicones? other silicon compounds?
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Silica is silicon dioxide
Silicon Dioxide (Silica) boils at 2230
The scientific name for sand is usually referred to as "silica" or "silicon dioxide."