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Fused Silica vs. Ceria

Fused silica belongs to the glass and glass-ceramics classification, while ceria belongs to the oxide-based engineering ceramics. There are 10 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (16, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.

For each property being compared, the top bar is fused silica and the bottom bar is ceria.

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Material Properties

Compressive (Crushing) Strength, MPa 1100
590
Density, g/cm3 2.2
7.6
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa 73
180
Electrical Resistivity Order of Magnitude, 10x Ω-m 14
4.0
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 1080
1900
Melting Onset (Solidus), °C 1900
2340
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K 720
390
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points 18
13
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points 63
25
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 0.5
11