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.
Silane is an inorganic compound with chemical formula, SiH4, making it a group 14 hydride. It is a colourless, flammable gas with a sharp, repulsive smell, somewhat similar to that of acetic acid. Silane is of practical interest as a precursor to elemental silicon. Silanes refer to many compounds with four substituents on silicon, including an organosilicon compound. Examples include trichlorosilane (SiHCl3), tetramethylsilane (Si(CH3)4), and tetraethoxysilane (Si(OC2H5)4).