silica gel

granular, vitreous, porous form of silicon dioxide
class chemical_substance Q308976
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silica gel

Summary

silica gel is a chemical substance[1]. It draws 549 Wikipedia views per month (chemical_substance category, ranking #8 of 70).[2]

Key Facts

  • silica gel's image is recorded as Indicating-silica-gel.png[3].
  • silica gel's image is recorded as Schematic silica gel surface.png[4].
  • silica gel's instance of is recorded as chemical substance[5].
  • silica gel's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 68855-54-9[6].
  • silica gel's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 112926-00-8[7].
  • silica gel's EC number is recorded as 272-489-0[8].
  • silica gel's EC number is recorded as 601-214-2[9].
  • silica gel's subclass of is recorded as gel[10].
  • silica gel's subclass of is recorded as column packing material[11].
  • silica gel's subclass of is recorded as absorbent[12].
  • silica gel's Commons category is recorded as Silica gel[13].
  • silica gel's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D058428[14].
  • silica gel's has part is recorded as silicon[15].
  • silica gel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01hxds[16].
  • silica gel's RTECS number is recorded as VV7310000[17].
  • silica gel's KEGG ID is recorded as D06521[18].
  • silica gel's MeSH tree code is recorded as D01.837.725.700.379[19].
  • silica gel's MeSH tree code is recorded as D20.280.320.687[20].
  • silica gel's MeSH tree code is recorded as D26.255.165.320.687[21].
  • silica gel's ZVG number is recorded as 491121[22].
  • silica gel's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300266087[23].
  • silica gel's PSH ID is recorded as 5857[24].
  • silica gel's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0142498[25].
  • silica gel's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[26].
  • silica gel's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/silica-gel[27].

Why It Matters

silica gel draws 549 Wikipedia views per month (chemical_substance category, ranking #8 of 70).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . ChemIDplus. chem.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . ECHA Substance Infocard database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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