Mayor Robert Garcia and City Manager Patrick H. West presented the City of Long Beachâs Proposed Fiscal Year 2017 Budget. View the Budget.
Silica Defined. Silica is another name for the chemical compound silicon dioxide. Each unit of silica includes one atom of silicon and two atoms of oxygen. If you have never heard of silica before, you might be surprised to hear that you probably come into contact with it every day.
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is a chemical compound that is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula Si O 2. It has been known since ancient times.Silica is most commonly found in nature as quartz, as well as in various living organisms.he solubility of silicon dioxide in water strongly depends on its crystalline form and is 3â4 times higher for silica than quartz; as a function of temperature, it peaks at about 340 Â°C.