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Substance Name: Quartz
RN: 14808-60-7
InChIKey: VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Note
- Quartz (SiO2). A glassy or crystalline form of silicon dioxide. Many colored varieties are semiprecious stones. (From Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed).
Molecular Formula
- O2-Si
Molecular Weight
- 60.084
Classification Codes
Classification Codes
- Human Data
- Mutation Data
- Tumor Data
Superlist Classification Codes
- Ceiling (30 mppcf)/%SiO2+2, total dust
- Ceiling /%SiO2+2 mg/m3 (30 ppm); total dust
- Known to be a Carcinogen
- Overall Carcinogenic Evaluation: Group 3
- TWA 0.05 mg/m3 (respirable fraction); Suspecpted human carcinogen
- TWA 250/%SiO2+5 mppcf; Ceiling (10 mppcf)/%SiO2+2; resp fraction
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Names and Synonyms
Name of Substance
- Quartz
MeSH Heading
- Quartz
Synonyms
- Agate
- alpha-Quartz
- Amethyst
- CCRIS 2475
- Chalcedony
- Cherts
- Crystallized silicon dioxide
- D & D
- DQ12
- EINECS 238-878-4
- Flint
- Flintshot
- Gold bond R
- Imsil
- Min-U-Sil
- MIN-U-sil alpha quartz
- Novaculite
- Onyx
- Quartz
- Quartz dust
- Quartz silica
- Quazo puro
- Quazo puro [Italian]
- Rock crystal
- Rose quartz
- Sand
- SF 35
- Sicron F 300
- Siderite (SiO2)
- Sikron F 100
- Sil-Co-Sil
- Silica dust
- Silica flour (powdered crystalline silica)
- Silicon oxide, di- (sand)
- Silver bond B
- Snowit
- TGL 16319
- Tiger-eye
- W 12
- W 12 (Filler)
Systematic Names
- Quartz
- Quartz (SiO2)
- Silica, crystalline - quartz
Superlist Names
- Quartz
- Quartz dust
- Quartz [Silica, crystalline]
- Silica
- Silica, crystalline quartz
- Silica, crystalline, quartz
- Silica, crystalline: quartz
- Silicates (<1% crystalline silica):Graphite, natural
Registry Numbers
CAS Registry Number
- 14808-60-7
Other Registry Numbers
- 122304-48-7
- 122304-49-8
- 12425-26-2
- 1317-79-9
- 70594-95-5
- 87347-84-0
System Generated Number
- 0014808607
Structure Descriptors
InChI
InChI=1S/O2Si/c1-3-2InChIKey
VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-NSmiles
O=[Si]=OToxicity
Organism | Test Type | Route | Reported Dose (Normalized Dose) | Effect | Source |
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dog | LDLo | intravenous | 20mg/kg (20mg/kg) | Biochemical Journal. Vol. 27, Pg. 1007, 1933. | |
human | LCLo | inhalation | 300ug/m3/10Y- (0.3mg/m3) | LIVER: OTHER CHANGES | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Vol. 271, Pg. 324, 1976. |
human | TCLo | inhalation | 16mppcf/8H/17 (16mppcf) | LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: COUGH LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: DYSPNEA LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: "FIBROSIS, FOCAL (PNEUMOCONIOSIS)" | National Technical Information Service. Vol. PB246-697, |
mouse | LD | intratracheal | > 20mg/kg (20mg/kg) | American Review of Respiratory Disease. Vol. 141(Suppl), Pg. A3-A937, 1990. | |
mouse | LD | intratracheal | > 20mg/kg (20mg/kg) | LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: OTHER CHANGES | American Review of Respiratory Disease. Vol. 141(Suppl), Pg. A3-A937, 1990. |
mouse | LDLo | intravenous | 40mg/kg (40mg/kg) | Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Vol. 1, Pg. 241, 1940. | |
rat | LDLo | intratracheal | 200mg/kg (200mg/kg) | LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: "FIBROSIS, FOCAL (PNEUMOCONIOSIS)" | British Journal of Industrial Medicine. Vol. 10, Pg. 9, 1953. |
rat | LDLo | intravenous | 90mg/kg (90mg/kg) | Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Vol. 57, Pg. 509, 1976. |