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Caption: (a) Expanded view showing oxygen atoms at the corners of a tetrahedron and a small silicon atom at the center. (b) View of the silica tetrahedron as it really exists with the oxygen atoms touching.

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(c)The silica tetrahedron represented diagramatically; the oxygen atoms are at the four points of the tetrahedron.

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